Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."

Some say that the Western countries cannot do without the mass immigration. Technically speaking, that is not true. An alternative solution does exist, in theory. I mean an effective expropriation of the elderly, making them fill all the hard, low paid jobs, just to survive

Bertrand Russell wrote a self-help book on how to be happy called “The Conquest of Happiness” (1930). Some of the passages are pretty funny.

It is a plain historical and economic fact that the Boomers stole this from you and instead gave you the underemployed mess of AI job applications and entry-level jobs demanding PhDs we have today. We went from high-growth to low-growth under Boomer protests and then leadership.

I fault them for not pursuing the obvious solutions to overpopulation: nuclear power and expansion into space.

If natalists were serious about public messaging, they would teach the unbabied that babies love being out at night. The lights, noise, bustle, crowds, music. Much more entertaining and interesting than rattle toys at home. Soothes them. Ancestral memories of rituals, festivals.

In the near future? More like since 2015.

I think fertility will crash to ≈1.0 within 10 years in *every society* that does not have harsh peer pressure against childless women. This dynamic is not about rising opportunity costs, but about the spreading consensus that children are pointless, so models don't catch that.

It's unintuitive but many famous and respected arguments are just completely insane, e.g. if you read Kant's actual argument for the categorical imperative (not that long) or Rawls's Theory of Justice (much longer) both are completely specious or even insane-asylum material

It's probably true that every technology from TV to AC that has made it more pleasant to stay at home and be antisocial has had some incremental effect, and phones are not a discontinuous exceptional thing but just part of that trend.