Katherine Boyle

Wow.

I believe they're still the biggest, yeah.

Yeah, I think it'll be a housing crisis, fewer people, and also, like, are millennials going to want to, you know, the millennials in Gen X, or Gen X is actually a pretty small generation, are they gonna wanna move into those places?

Definitely not.

You know, in some ways, the bigger question I think is also, and I know you've had people on who've talked about longevity, people are living a lot longer too, which means they're gonna have to work a lot longer, which means they have to be healthier for a lot longer.

And so, you know, if you have people living a lot longer and fewer and fewer people who are being born, it's just, it's society inverts on itself.

You have a very top heavy society of people who are older who can't do the work that needs to be done to actually protect a country.

You know, I haven't seen anything recently successfully.

There have been some attempts.

Some people have pointed to countries like Hungary that are now paying.

There's a policy in Hungary where if you have more than four children, you don't have to pay taxes.

So there's some extreme policies where you've seen that.

So the one anomaly in the Western world or in the industrialized world where they are well above birth rate replacement is Israel.

And so there's questions about, is it because it's a religious society?

They have a pretty large religious Orthodox community, right?

That kind of makes up for the rest of the secular society that doesn't have children.

If you have a family of eight and nine and 10, that's 10% of your population, then you can make up for some who are not having any.

But we don't have that in America.

We don't have as many, you know, I would say, we have more than Europe, which Europe is really the continent.

Yes.