It’s not always true that populations becoming more religious leads to meaningful (or any) increases in fertility. The Economist pointed out, Indonesia went from 5% of women wearing the hijab in late 1990s to ~75% today. Yet TFR went from ~2.75 then to below replacement today.
In addition, Malaysia (which the article also explained has become more religious on both the state and the individual level) has seen its ethnic Malay (the principal Muslim ethnicity in the country) fertility rate fall from 2.74 in 2012 to 1.91 (far below replacement) in 2024.
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In addition, Malaysia (which the article also explained has become more religious on both the state and the individual level) has seen its ethnic Malay (the principal Muslim ethnicity in the country) fertility rate fall from 2.74 in 2012 to 1.91 (far below replacement) in 2024.
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Iran war: A Rothschild plot?
When US Army General Wesley Clark was told in 2001 that the US was “going to invade 7 countries in 5 years,” it meant nations whose central banks “were not on board with programmable money,” says Fitts.
The aim was to assert control over the central banks of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran and place them under a globalist Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) framework.
A centrally controlled CBDC system with globally interoperable digital IDs cannot tolerate ‘leakage’ meaning independent sovereign monetary systems.
The pursuit of independent payment systems by Iran and BRICS makes them a sticking point for globalists.
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When US Army General Wesley Clark was told in 2001 that the US was “going to invade 7 countries in 5 years,” it meant nations whose central banks “were not on board with programmable money,” says Fitts.
The aim was to assert control over the central banks of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran and place them under a globalist Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) framework.
"I'll call it the Rockefeller-Rothschild model," Fitts says.
A centrally controlled CBDC system with globally interoperable digital IDs cannot tolerate ‘leakage’ meaning independent sovereign monetary systems.
"I think one of the reasons we're seeing so much tension around Iran is because Iran right now is the big leakage in the system,".
"Iran's central bank counts. One of the reasons it counts is because their oil and energy is very important."
The pursuit of independent payment systems by Iran and BRICS makes them a sticking point for globalists.
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The reason we have a global fertility crisis is because culture has changed in an inhuman way. Humans are created for belonging, purpose, family, community, shared struggle & interdependence not consumerism, career-firstism, digital substitutes for relationships, & individualism.
Cash handouts do not fix this, tax breaks don’t fix this, & disingenuous culture wars certainly don’t fix it. The “culture” created over the past several decades is hurting society. It has pushed isolation, made irl social interaction harder, & rewarded horrible social behavior.
Virtually every member of the political, business, & tech elite is fighting to preserve this negative “culture” so don’t look to politicians, tech billionaires, or social media personalities to turn things around. Do it in your own life.
Put away the phone more & more each day (remember that social media is not real life). Don’t get caught up in the noise or the scroll as it is custom designed to make you feel empty & craving it more each day. Keep the strongest bonds with your family & friends.
Young Millennials, Zoomers & Gen Alphas are the future. If they can’t break free of the hellish culture that has been foisted upon them our national future is cooked. It will be a long trek to fix things, but it’s on a path that we humans were meant to walk.
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Cash handouts do not fix this, tax breaks don’t fix this, & disingenuous culture wars certainly don’t fix it. The “culture” created over the past several decades is hurting society. It has pushed isolation, made irl social interaction harder, & rewarded horrible social behavior.
Virtually every member of the political, business, & tech elite is fighting to preserve this negative “culture” so don’t look to politicians, tech billionaires, or social media personalities to turn things around. Do it in your own life.
Put away the phone more & more each day (remember that social media is not real life). Don’t get caught up in the noise or the scroll as it is custom designed to make you feel empty & craving it more each day. Keep the strongest bonds with your family & friends.
Young Millennials, Zoomers & Gen Alphas are the future. If they can’t break free of the hellish culture that has been foisted upon them our national future is cooked. It will be a long trek to fix things, but it’s on a path that we humans were meant to walk.
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Historically, technology has replaced physical labor. Factories, robots, automation - these mainly reduced the labor of workers. But AI is different. It is primarily entering intellectual work: engineers, analysts, bank employees, lawyers, product managers, and others.
The issue here is not only about jobs.
The modern economic system is built around white collars. The highest salaries are in this stratum. Banks give these people even the most reliable loans. They take out mortgages, buy houses, use credit cards.
The main goal of young people entering university was to earn a high salary by engaging in intellectual work in the future, for which they will receive an educational loan, then find a good white-collar job and pay off these debts.
That is, a large part of the entire financial system is connected to this chain:
education → good work → credit → consumption → economic growth.
If AI primarily reduces the work of this particular segment, it will raise significant questions not only for the labor market but also for the financial system.
Perhaps, in the future, economic models will also have to change.
Because AI isn't just changing things. It forces us to rethink the entire economic architecture.
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The issue here is not only about jobs.
The modern economic system is built around white collars. The highest salaries are in this stratum. Banks give these people even the most reliable loans. They take out mortgages, buy houses, use credit cards.
The main goal of young people entering university was to earn a high salary by engaging in intellectual work in the future, for which they will receive an educational loan, then find a good white-collar job and pay off these debts.
That is, a large part of the entire financial system is connected to this chain:
education → good work → credit → consumption → economic growth.
If AI primarily reduces the work of this particular segment, it will raise significant questions not only for the labor market but also for the financial system.
Perhaps, in the future, economic models will also have to change.
Because AI isn't just changing things. It forces us to rethink the entire economic architecture.
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Glass Half-What?
There are over a billion people on earth who don’t have access to clean water, and you’re complaining that your Instagram’s not growing?
You’ve just got to be thankful. People just don’t have perspective. It’s really easy to be energized when you actually understand the score. The problem is that people just don’t have a perspective. They don’t understand that it’s impossible to be a human being. Like, it’s impossible, that’s the rarest thing in the world. People are just taking it for granted.
You’re more likely to win the lottery 10 times than be alive. 400 trillion to one — that’s how rare it is to be a human being. Everybody reading this is more likely to get hit by lightning 7 times than to be alive. That’s crazy.
Perspective. And once you see gratitude and opportunity, life is fun. You get to decide if you’re going to dwell and play prevent defense, or if you’re going to see opportunity, be grateful, and go on offense.
I’m grateful for the health and well-being of my family. I’m grateful for the fact that my mother is an amazing parent who was able to reverse-engineer exactly who I was. She watched me be a C and D, sometimes even an F student and allowed me to be the person I wanted to be. I’m so grateful that they allowed me to do what I needed to do instead of getting caught up in the conversation of their contemporaries.
I’m inspired by practicality and reality and the truth, which is that it is ridiculously impossible to become a human being, and I am one. I have other good things going for me as a human being, and I’m just grateful.
You’re dwelling and looking at what you don’t have, versus looking at what you have. There’s nothing you’ll ever accomplish that’s more remarkable than the fact that you have a chance to accomplish something. When you’re so grateful for the add-back, you’re happy. But people dwell about dumb shit.
What’s something most people take for granted? Family time. Your health. Access to clean water. Food on the table. A roof over your head.
We lack gratitude. You understand that, right? I’m trying to get people to practice reframing their perspective. I practice gratitude every day. If I wake up in the morning and nobody I love passed away or came down with a terminal illness, then my day starts off great.
If there were a list that ranked everyone on earth in terms of overall success and happiness, from one to 8.3 billion, where do you think you’d rank?
How to Shift Your Mindset When You're Stuck in Negativity
It gets really cozy to blame perfectionism for not doing it. “Oh, you don’t get it — I’m a perfectionist. That’s why I can’t do this and that. That’s why I’m not starting my X career. I’m a perfectionist.” No, you’re not. You’re cute with your words and you’re using it as an excuse to not do, because you fear failure. You’re not a perfectionist. You’re an avoider.
You don’t have the humility to admit that you’re scared, so you created this really pretty package called perfectionism. You’ve manipulated yourself and others to hide that you’re scared.
I f*cking hate fear. Boy do I hate fear.
It’s really easy to be like, “Well, my life fucked me up.” But you’re 37. You’re 29. You’re 44. Why are you just going to be like, I got f*cked? Like — everyone got f*cked. People just decided that everyone else’s life is perfect. You have no idea what’s going on in someone’s head, or what’s behind those four walls. You think they have it better? What about putting it on yourself?
Just use half that energy. This is why accountability is everything.
Also, people have an obsession to think things are black and white. You’ve just thrown up the white flag and decided to live unhappy, when there are a million modern ways to get out of it. Literally making a playlist of positive songs and just listening to it every morning for an hour can fundamentally shift someone. Just that. Go to Spotify and type in “positive.”
If you want to find positivity, it’s everywhere. There’s just way too much momentum right now of people looking for negativity.
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There are over a billion people on earth who don’t have access to clean water, and you’re complaining that your Instagram’s not growing?
You’ve just got to be thankful. People just don’t have perspective. It’s really easy to be energized when you actually understand the score. The problem is that people just don’t have a perspective. They don’t understand that it’s impossible to be a human being. Like, it’s impossible, that’s the rarest thing in the world. People are just taking it for granted.
You’re more likely to win the lottery 10 times than be alive. 400 trillion to one — that’s how rare it is to be a human being. Everybody reading this is more likely to get hit by lightning 7 times than to be alive. That’s crazy.
Perspective. And once you see gratitude and opportunity, life is fun. You get to decide if you’re going to dwell and play prevent defense, or if you’re going to see opportunity, be grateful, and go on offense.
I’m grateful for the health and well-being of my family. I’m grateful for the fact that my mother is an amazing parent who was able to reverse-engineer exactly who I was. She watched me be a C and D, sometimes even an F student and allowed me to be the person I wanted to be. I’m so grateful that they allowed me to do what I needed to do instead of getting caught up in the conversation of their contemporaries.
I’m inspired by practicality and reality and the truth, which is that it is ridiculously impossible to become a human being, and I am one. I have other good things going for me as a human being, and I’m just grateful.
You’re dwelling and looking at what you don’t have, versus looking at what you have. There’s nothing you’ll ever accomplish that’s more remarkable than the fact that you have a chance to accomplish something. When you’re so grateful for the add-back, you’re happy. But people dwell about dumb shit.
What’s something most people take for granted? Family time. Your health. Access to clean water. Food on the table. A roof over your head.
We lack gratitude. You understand that, right? I’m trying to get people to practice reframing their perspective. I practice gratitude every day. If I wake up in the morning and nobody I love passed away or came down with a terminal illness, then my day starts off great.
If there were a list that ranked everyone on earth in terms of overall success and happiness, from one to 8.3 billion, where do you think you’d rank?
How to Shift Your Mindset When You're Stuck in Negativity
It gets really cozy to blame perfectionism for not doing it. “Oh, you don’t get it — I’m a perfectionist. That’s why I can’t do this and that. That’s why I’m not starting my X career. I’m a perfectionist.” No, you’re not. You’re cute with your words and you’re using it as an excuse to not do, because you fear failure. You’re not a perfectionist. You’re an avoider.
You don’t have the humility to admit that you’re scared, so you created this really pretty package called perfectionism. You’ve manipulated yourself and others to hide that you’re scared.
I f*cking hate fear. Boy do I hate fear.
It’s really easy to be like, “Well, my life fucked me up.” But you’re 37. You’re 29. You’re 44. Why are you just going to be like, I got f*cked? Like — everyone got f*cked. People just decided that everyone else’s life is perfect. You have no idea what’s going on in someone’s head, or what’s behind those four walls. You think they have it better? What about putting it on yourself?
Just use half that energy. This is why accountability is everything.
Also, people have an obsession to think things are black and white. You’ve just thrown up the white flag and decided to live unhappy, when there are a million modern ways to get out of it. Literally making a playlist of positive songs and just listening to it every morning for an hour can fundamentally shift someone. Just that. Go to Spotify and type in “positive.”
If you want to find positivity, it’s everywhere. There’s just way too much momentum right now of people looking for negativity.
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