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Do countries with denser social graphs have better outcomes?

by 0xWTF on 4/21/25, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

So, this article (1) has an interesting quote: “Our ultimate goal is not just more babies but more families formed.”

Ok, that would tend to suggest stronger nuclear families, which would tend to suggest a stronger aggregate social graph. Is that measurably good? Can adtech companies measure this objectively?

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/trump-birthrate-proposals.html