Falling birth rates make a society less able to be hopeful, because nihilism creeps in when people have no stake in the future.
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26 Aug 2026
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsI think this is one of the great tragedies of the moment, is the falling birth rates are making it more difficult for people to be excited about a more prosperous future that is difficult to get to. Because if we're planting trees of which our children will not sit in the shades, I don't know, maybe we should just make some lumber and burn it all down, right? I think there's a nihilism that can sneak into society much more easily when we are not DNA invested in the future