"I'm going to make a crazy forecast, and I want everyone to understand this is a crazy forecast. Let's suppose Thailand keeps its current fertility rate of 0.8 for 200 years. Thailand right now has 63 million people. At the end of 200 years, it will be around two million people.
Two million."
I sat down for a chat about the debt and deficits with @dkthomp.bsky.social, and I recommend this piece because Derek forced me to be as clear as I've ever been in describing these issues, and why I'm worried.
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-i-lear...
new pod: HOW FATHERHOOD CHANGES MEN'S BRAINS
I talked to @darbysaxbe.bsky.social about:
- how men tripled childcare time since 1960s
- why women still dominate (ie: men don't do) "invisible labor" and "mental load"
- the neuroscience of becoming dad
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDbB...