Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch
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So I think it's an unalloyed good.
But yeah, then health care is very expensive.
Cost of school is very expensive.
Your career will suffer, right?
It's well known that a woman has a child, you know, her career will be set back for all those reasons.
Now, you could say we are 8 billion, right?
We're not going to die out anytime soon.
So I'm not judging as good and bad.
I'm just saying this is what it is.
The modern family is much smaller than the family 100 years ago.
And that probably brings with it profound consequences that we are only now being very dimly aware of, like the increase.
I think it's one of the drivers of the increase in mental health issues.
the ever increasing mental health crisis.
All sorts of studies show that when you survey first and second year freshmen, some very large fraction, I don't remember the exact number anymore, 40 or 45% of these freshmen say they don't interact with a single person a day.
Because it's all virtual.
They don't talk to anyone in person, in the flesh, as it were.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I don't know.
The question is that bread or is that because, of course, people outbreed or is that just cultural variation?