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Published · transcript-backedEzra Klein: prediction
19 Mar 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
“I understand there’s a view that if liberal secular societies begin to shrink, eventually it’s just going to be the Amish will take over the world.”
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- 19 Mar 2025
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…One favors one version of it, no matter what. It could or it couldn’t, right? I understand there’s a view that if liberal secular societies begin to shrink, eventually it’s just going to be the Amish will take over the world. Maybe. Or maybe, as the Amish society grows, they will be impinged upon by all the pressures that hit all these other societies, and within a couple of generations their birth rates will fall very rapidly. I wouldn’t be surprised by that at all, would you? It may not be the Amish, but whichever are the remnants of high birth-rate cultures, it seems to me they will dominate. Maybe it’s Niger in Sahelian Africa.…
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