Malcolm Collins
Appearances
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
The most persistent and durable trend tied to falling fertility rates is the more income a group has within a country or the more income a country has, the lower its fertility rate on average. Why is it the less money you have, the more kids you have? It's about not being willing to sacrifice your current lifestyle to have more kids.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
To the question of just strict immigration, this is a purely predatory policy. If we look right now at Latin America, we are across Latin America seeing a fertility rate collapse much sharper and much steeper than what Europe has gone through or what the United States has gone through, with Latin America collectively falling below repopulation rate all the way back in 2019.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
So if you're talking about solving it with immigration in the United States, you're literally just victimizing other countries. They take the time to train and educate and spend tax dollars on people when they're in the parasitic phase of life. And then we get them during their productive phase of life. Yeah, it might be all well and good for us, but it's hurting them.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
You know, it's a very different way of seeing the world. I personally, and as I've said, what I like about the prenatalist movement is the diversity of views within it. And that when I go to the prenatalist conference, I get to hear ideas and perspectives that I don't get to hear anywhere else.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
Pronatalism is about bringing attention to falling fertility rates and the geopolitical and economic and social consequences of this and looking for realistic and non-coercive solutions.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
Oh, well, that's not really my choice as the husband. So I'll shoot that to Simone.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
I do. And people have asked me, they go, oh, you know, would you stop her from doing this? Right. And I'm like, well, but then that's stopping one of my kids from coming into existence. Like, and I've interacted with my kids. I love my kids. And I appreciate what she goes through and the risk she puts herself through and her body through. I also...
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
understand that if i tell her to stop i'm functionally erasing all future kids we have from existence like if a an intruder like had your wife and your kid at gunpoint and they're like choose like everybody knows the right choice in that situation it's just that the way our society views kids right now we assign no value to the life of a child that isn't born or conceived yet
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
That's not our goal at all, is to scale this up. We are one experiment to get through the crucible of fertility collapse.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
No, I'm encouraging others to find new and their own way of doing this. I would be disheartened if people tried to copy exactly what my wife are doing, because what my wife and I are doing with our family is an experiment experiment. And it's an experiment that might fail.
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
And what the prenatalist movement really is, is it's a collection of people running with their families their own experiment about how they might modify older traditions or older ways of living or come up with entirely new ways of living. And it's one of the reasons why internally the movement is so diverse. You know, we're about to go to NatalCon and...
Global News Podcast
The Global Story: Pronatalism - Make America procreate again?
When I go there, I am meeting and friendly with people of radically different traditions, whether they are a traditional Catholic or a transhumanist Mormon or people like techno-Puritans like us. And that's one of the most exciting things about the movement.