Yeah if there is any truth to the Ai predictions, conventional "economic conservatism" is dead in the water, simply gone. You can't tell 300 million people to go die under a bridge because they can't pay the mortgage. I mean you can tell them but no one will leave home.

It's like there are 2 different Trump administrations. One is focused on perfecting the Monroe doctrine, winning the Anglo-Slavic forever war, forming the Empire of Man. While the other is made up of plastic surgery victims, nerds, podcasters. #2 runs domestic affairs.

There are 3 factors which correlate strongly with replacement plus fertility: 1. Earlier female marriage, 2. fewer years of female education, 3. lower rates of female wage employment. Not paternity leave, or 4,000 sq ft suburb houses, etc. But this is naughty to discuss.