“ It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if half your population is female, and each of them average 1 baby in their lifetime, each generation will be 50% smaller than the previous generation. After 10 such generations, a society that started off with a million people will wind up with just a thousand people. Imagine a city like New York shrinking to the size of a small town. And in another 10 generations, that small town shrinking to the size of a single household. That’s where we’re headed.”
Doubtful, the societal incentive structures would drastically change far before we got that small.
xchip · 22h ago
TL;DR: Author believes women should make more babies.
nothercastle · 2h ago
More that evolution will drive us to societies where women have no rights because that’s where most babies are made
Doubtful, the societal incentive structures would drastically change far before we got that small.