| ▲ | thomasfl 3 hours ago |
| Will Tinder be blamed for the sudden decline in fertility rate? Is there any other plausible explanstion to South Korea’s sudden and dramatic drop in fertility rate to 0.8? No matter how bad the housing market is or the job market is, there has never in history been such a drop in population. |
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| ▲ | glitchc 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The only new variable in the last century of humanity is birth control. All others (hypergamy, economic mobility, migration, etc.) are recurring and have not impacted birth rates significantly in the past. |
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| ▲ | numpad0 36 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Population density and infant mortality had changed a lot too in the last 100 years. Income disparities, working hours, and climate too in the last 50. |
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| ▲ | password54321 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes, dating apps turbocharge hypergamy. It is not a secret that the top 10% of men get a huge share of the likes received. Edit: Share of all likes received according to ChatGPT Top 1% 16.4% Top 5% 41.1% Top 10% 58.0% Top 50% 95.7% Bottom 50% 4.3% |
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| ▲ | derektank 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Male hypergamy and polygyny has been practiced by many cultures historically. They had many problems, but low birth rates wasn’t among them. I don’t think dating apps are a sufficient causal explanation alone for low birth rates | | |
| ▲ | password54321 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Back then you could have 10 wives and start a population of people named Khan. | | | |
| ▲ | breezybottom 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Like which cultures? | |
| ▲ | 3848488558 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The second factor is access to birth control, most women just dont want to have children unless in very specific circumstances Historically they were compelled | | |
| ▲ | password54321 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | This explains the drop from 50s not the 2000s. | | |
| ▲ | malicka 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Cell-phones. Noone’s having sex because they’d rather watch Tik-Tok; it’s got lower friction than going outside. | |
| ▲ | voxelghost an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | perhaps religious and moral pressure not to excersize the choice available has decreased between 50s and 2000s |
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