in my exp doctors and vets always make comments like this but bc they're so professional they never hear how it sounds. guy was just happy his method worked 😂
i find it funny the consensus is OF has a time limit/clock when there are multiple people on there right now pretending to be in their 50s bc it sells better than being one of the million hot 20 yr olds💀
ELON MUSK: “One of the things that is overlooked by probably most historians is the role of low birth rate in the decline of civilizations.
Around 50 BC, Rome passed a bill to give a bonus to any Roman citizen that would have a third child. So a birth rate was a problem in Rome in 50 BC. The Romans weren’t making Romans. The same is true of ancient Greece.
The birth rate far exceeded the death rate, which is why you had Greek cities popping up all over the Mediterranean. But then it seems to be that prosperity destroys the birth rate. When a civilization feels like it has no meaningful external threat and is very prosperous, that is what causes the birth rate to plummet.”
Rome fell because the Romans stopped making Romans.
Elon Musk pointed to the same pattern that appears whenever a civilization gets comfortable: birth rates drop.
Julius Caesar noticed it around 50 BC and explored incentives for a third child. Augustus went further with the Lex Julia and Lex Papia Poppaea, creating the ius trium liberorum, privileges, tax relief, and inheritance advantages for those with three or more children, plus penalties for the childless. The laws failed to reverse the trend.
Will and Ariel Durant’s reading of history shows the cycle repeating: higher births under stress, decline once external threats ease and prosperity rises. Few exceptions.
A society that stays below replacement long enough disappears. Basic arithmetic.