The low dysgenic fertility problem is much harder to crack, and is the one that will probably do us in. How do you persuade smart young girls that they'd rather start a smart young family than have a high-flying career? How do you persuade smart young boys to take the condom off?
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Some of it is that people just have a lot more to do with themselves these days--there's never a shortage of entertainment. Why have kids if you're not bored?
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Take Facebook & TV away, create a *real* labor shortage, and dramatically lower social expectations on efforts to put into kids, and I expect people would have more.
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Oh, and I suppose having some identity as a people helps, too. See Israel. They breed for the Jewish people there. Whites in the US currently just don't care.
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Fair point, but managing low IQ subpopulations is at least a well-defined problem. We know what's happening, we know what the effects are, and there's a fairly obvious set of workable solutions which present themselves. We can deal with it.
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Interested to know why you don't think banning birth control would work? Seems to me that if all sex carried the possibility of children, pre-1950 moral standards might just re-emerge out of necessity. At the very least, you'd get more kids.
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Israel is interesting, hadn't really considered it. It'd be interesting to know whether they still have an imbalance in favour of the less intelligent.
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Yes, and poorer people either don't care or don't plan well. Wealthy people could prioritize kids and sacrifice luxuries, but there's a catch: expectation of investment in each kid may go up alongside greater investment. They can't help themselves. It's a curse of plenty.
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