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Old 10-23-2015, 07:23 PM  
fuzebox
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This might sound like a good idea to some people but all Western nations are having an issue right now with their "smart" people having children. People may not want to talk about this because it doesn't sound nice, but the reality is, smart/successful people are not having kids at the same rate as the less smart and less successful. Western nations are going to need to figure out a way to get these people to start having kids or in a few decades things are really going to be screwy.

I have 30 cousins. About half are Ivy League types, the other half are less educated types. The Ivy League types have 0-1 kids. The less educated types have 3-6 kids.

It's some real Freakonomics shit
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