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The East Asian high-rise development model is catastrophic for birth rates

by ilamont on 6/16/25, 3:32 PM with 10 comments

• by PaulHoule on 6/16/25, 4:01 PM

  I've been saying this for years but nobody listens. I mean, you have kids because you feel lonely and take a lover. From an evolutionary psychology viewpoint people should be less interested in having children if they feel crowded. The literature is ambivalent on the topic though:

  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/225997

  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1340041/

  https://www.milbank.org/wp-content/uploads/mq/volume-54/issu...

• by mixmastamyk on 6/16/25, 4:35 PM

  Good, we don’t need any more people. There’s over 8 billion already, and that’s enough. I’m always surprised when I hear the too common refrain that birth rates are too low.

• by garbagecoder on 6/16/25, 4:05 PM

  This comment section is going to fill up with urbanist walls of texts in 5... 4...