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Students add that rising child costs and loss of religion can also explain why young people stop forming families.
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Fertility
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Population could also decline because the cost of raising a child is increased."
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He says young people will then have more children because greater mobility makes childbearing feel like a way to create better opportunities for the family.
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Jiang uses fertility and morale as supporting indicators for his comparison, arguing that South Korea's low birth rate and affluent fear of death make it structurally weaker in prolonged conflict than poorer North Korea.
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His proposed winning immigrant strategy is cohesion plus fertility: stay with the ethnic group, preserve religion, and allow children and grandchildren to dominate demographically.
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The purely evolutionary strategy in which every woman seeks the top male cannot be socially sustainable, because too many men would be eliminated from reproduction.
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Growing, competitive societies solve reproductive pressure through arranged marriage, while wealthy overpopulated societies produce a dating game where marrying up becomes the path to status.
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Pronatalist financial incentives fail in Jiang's model because people want status, and status or power is zero-sum while money is not.
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Jiang says a strong indicator of civilizational collapse is wealthy, well-educated women refusing to have children.
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"Population could also decline because the cost of raising a child is increased."
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"Yeah, the lack of religion, right? Okay. Okay. But I'm saying, like, argue against staunter, okay? And what Carol says is, yeah, but immigration..."
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"I mean, the reality is that when war starts, you're going to have this rapid population decline, right? When that happens, you're going to..."
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"...because of the birth rate, right? Where in North Korea, the fertility rate is still 1.81. It's not that high. It's not great. But..."
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"North Korea will also lose people, but just if there's no war, if we just keep on going, eventually, South Korea will go to..."
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"...think it's possible in five years time, China has the lowest fertility rate in the world. Right now, it's South Korea at 0.8."
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"China's about one. But I can easily see China overtaking South Korea in like five years time. So that's the real issue facing China...."
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"best indicator of a society in decline right so the Roman Empire when it declined the main uh problem was that women refused to..."
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"yourself um you used to use gold by a house in 1980 as versus using gold by um uh but using gold by house..."
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"of power yeah I'm not too optimistic that um um the century belongs to East Asia you know I I know there's a lot..."
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"...other thing is that East Asians aren't having children so the fertility rate in East Asia is the lowest in the world in South..."
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"dollars to young couples to get married and have children and and it's still not solving a problem because young people in South Korea..."
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