Comments by "worn down" (@worndown8280) on "US Birth Rates Plummet To 40-Year Low || Peter Zeihan" video.

Imagine if the mother stayed with their child.
45
@wilsi473 no. You don't understand that these interests are opposed to one another. People must choose. We have lied and said people, women in particular can have both. They really can't. And civilization needs one to continue to exist. If people don't want that and prioritize one over the other, that's fine. But they should fully understand this. Today it's not even talked about.
10
@johnl.7754 People have often made exuses why women have stopped having kids, but your answer is the most honest one. Historically people in much worse economic conditions have reproduced endlessly. I wish more would be as honest. as you
3
@calc1657 The future is made one choice at a time. Want a better future, make better choices. Not making a choice is a choice too, but seldom is it a good one.
2
Peter doesnt get this. Its not city living or industrialization that drops fertility rates. Japan industrialized in the late 1800s and early 1900s, their birth rate was near 6 child per women and by the time WWII came around is was at 5. So what is it that drops fertility rates, ask the UN. Its part of their global policy. Empowering women drops fertility rates. Because at a certain point women dont "need" men. At that point you have men and women who dont need each other and then pop, population implodes. And I am not sure what numbers Perter is looking at. But the US has been below replacement rates since 1972. The only thing that has pushed off the same collapse now facing other nations is endless immigration. But even the immigration today is not so much people wanting to come to the US, but our foreign policies destoying other nations so those people have no other choice but to move. Even then, most of that immigration isnt coming to the US, they would rather go to another nation like Mexico. Similar culture, language and better purchasing power. There are no good answers going forward.
1
@doctorx1924 Many of the Venezuelans who came up to the US recently have been expressing that. That this isnt what they were told when they decided to move from there to here. And yet I hear know talk of just who is telling these people these things? I imagine its NGO groups like the kind who were helping migrants from Africa to Italy before the EU was forced to hold them to human trafficking standards. I think the EU allowed it because they understand the same policy effects that are effecting population decline in Europe as well, but lack the political spine to admit it. Just like in the US.
1
People use to have kids in caves and huts made of cattle feces. Economics isnt the issue. This is a cultural damage issue.
1