One possibility: how much was demand-driven by tech (kids with TV & phones & computers & video games not inclined to leave the house)?
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I don't have a nice one-word explanation for this like "education caused the fertility transition" does anybody?
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@sarahdoingthing "independence". longer: parent-as-decision-maker swung too low into kids lives, bc evol-adaptive protectiveness is too much1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing PREVIOUSLY KID: can i go Outside PARENT: yes KID: *decides what to do in the Outside*1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing NOW KID: *decides what to do in the Outside* KID: can i go to@ContentOfMedia's house PARENT: *remembers they is weird* hmm1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing PARENT is executing evolutionary-adaptive algorithm "deny any request for thing that riskier than average risk of things"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing but now instead of {Outside, Inside} it's {outside:friend's house, outside:friend's house, outside:friend's house...}2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing obviously have to tie in "it is expensive for kids to ask their parents for things", "kids try to model their parents", etc1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@MindOfKillers discretion is interesting as a property of systems, it moves1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing discretion is a much better word for picking out this specific idea, "independence" calls up too many other things2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@MindOfKillers in school I had a class that was just discretion within systems, prof died under mysterious circ's so never figured it out
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@sarahdoingthing i keep trying to parse this but get distracted because it sounds like a setup for a pun1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@MindOfKillers I realized it sounds like a joke but it really happened, it's the Simulators' joke2 replies 0 retweets 1 like - 2 more replies
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