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Pronatalism

Society has defeated the family
All societies exist in a tense relationship with families. Current high-tech society is the first to win that battle outright.
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Tove K
30
Make children part of the competition of life
Children have increasingly become a pastime. And people can only spend so much on pastimes. The solution is to arrange competitions where parents have a…
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Tove K
42
Parent shaming causes the demographic collapse
No one likes to be shamed by their peers. One easy way to avoid it is to abstain from children.
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Tove K
34
Every time someone says “Please think of the children”, fertility sinks by a millimeter
The more every child needs to be thought of, the fewer children there can be
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Tove K
35
Building Utopia: Endurable version
Designing a society that is pleasant today is not enough. It has to be pleasant to our descendants too
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Tove K
16
Behind the fertility crisis, there is an army of worried mothers
Human females did not necessarily evolve to want many children. They evolved to worry about the children they have.
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Tove K
32
Pronatalism is inherently groupish
The human race is not in danger of extinction. The purpose of pronatalism is not to save the human race, but to save certain human civilizations
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Tove K
61
Hell is other people - Why individualism shrinks the next generation
Humans evolved to take care of children cooperatively. Small household size forces us to break with that tradition, with low fertility as a result
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Tove K
37
Why fertility inevitably sinks in successful market economies
Fertility is determined by culture. But culture is determined by economic forces, making all major cultures take the same road.
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Tove K
21
Do you like your ideas? Then have children
Pro-natalism is not only about securing the survival of the species. It is also about securing the survival of humanity’s best ideas.
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Tove K
4
Do babies die from sleeping on their tummies?
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Tove K
11
The curious case of Israeli fertility
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Anders L
22
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