Why Do So Many People Not Want To Have Children? - Malcolm Collins - #640

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
What's happening, people, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Malcolm Collins. He's a pro natalist, Stanford MBA graduate, venture capitalist and an author. What would the world actually look like if the global population was only 500 million people? Given the current birthrate projections, we're approaching a massive collapse. And if you think that a planet with too many people on it is bad, a planet with too few is even worse. Expect to learn why Korea is projected to experience a 94% population extinction within the next century, why so few people actually want to have kids in 2023, why a super virus has taken over the progressive movement, whether prosperity, equality, education and fertility are incompatible with each other, whether authoritarianism could fix the problem, if there's a moral obligation to have children, the implications of using new technology for gene editing and birthing via artificial wombs, and much more. As you can imagine, this is a quite contested topic and Malcolm is a very outspoken proponent of being concerned about this. No matter what you think, population collapse is something that is a genuine risk. We know how many one year olds there are right now, which means that we know the exact upper bound on how many people can be on the planet in 80 years time. We don't know that to do with the weather. We don't know that to do with climate change. We don't even know that to do with artificial intelligence. This is one of those looming risks in the future that we have a great degree of certainty about what is going to happen. And it is a really, really big problem. Malcolm is a very, very extroverted, outgoing, energetic guy when it comes to talking about this. And I find his insights very interesting. It's something that you need to know about. It's something that you should be having a discussion with your friends about as well. And I really, I value these conversations. 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