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New Opinion Piece in the NYT

"Birthrates in much of the developed world are at record lows, but there’s one demographic group that’s exploring new frontiers of fertility: ultrawealthy men. Deploying nearly limitless resources, a small number of them are reproducing at such an extraordinary scale and pace that they’re exploding previous notions of what a family is. At a moment when so many people say they feel priced out of having even one child, these adventures in prolific fatherhood are emerging as a stark example of inequality made flesh.

Numerous reports have landed in recent years about men using reproductive technology to produce dozens of offspring. The billionaire developer Stefan Soloviev has 22 children, some conceived through clinical methods. Pavel Durov, the billionaire Russian founder of the messaging platform Telegram, said his sperm donations had produced over 100 children."

Read the full article here (no paywall): https://archive.ph/t9510#selection-4865.0-4877.1

u/JoePNW2 — 4 days ago
▲ 83 r/ThePitt

New in the L.A. Times: How "The Pitt" is Reviving the TV Business in LA

"As Hollywood reels from runaway production and job losses, medical drama #ThePitt has become an unlikely hit — and a hometown lifeline.

Filmed almost entirely on the Warner Bros. lot, the show has pumped tens of millions into California’s economy, sustaining hundreds of local businesses and nearly 1,000 jobs.

We talked to the team behind the hit show, including Noah Wyle and showrunner R. Scott Gemmill, about how “The Pitt” is emerging as a model for rebuilding L.A.-based production in the streaming era."

No-paywall reading link: https://archive.ph/DV7ZO

u/JoePNW2 — 7 days ago
▲ 22 r/Natalism+1 crossposts

[June 22 1926] International Labor Conference on Migration held in London

(From the Sydney Sun, June 23 1926)

u/JoePNW2 — 11 days ago
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The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026)

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u/Altruistic-Dirt-2791 — 20 days ago
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When More Women Remain Childless, the "Replacement" TFR Rises: An Analysis from Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (UPenn)

"Replacement fertility in one chart: Even if 90% of women have children and average 2.2 each, we still fall short.

Why? The fertility rate of a population equals the product of the proportion of women who have children and the average number of children per mother.

That is, if 90% of women have children and the average number of children per mother is 2.2, the fertility rate of this population is 1.98.

This simple formula gives us the relationship between the proportion of mothers in a population and the average number of children per mother required to reach the replacement rate. As I explained two days ago (check my feed if you missed it), this replacement rate is 2.1 in Western countries, where sex selection and infant mortality are low.

The figure plots the result (if you are technical, this is called the iso-replacement curve). Obviously, if 100% of women become mothers, the average number of children per mother required to reach replacement is 2.1. If we move to 90%, this average rises to 2.33.

Notice that if we fall to 80%, the average increases substantially to 2.6. I selected 80% because it implies that one in five women never becomes a mother, close to what we now see in Japan and parts of Southern Europe. The current young cohorts in advanced economies seem to be on track to be well below 80%, but we will not know for sure for another 20 years or so.

Having an average of 2.6 children per mother requires many very large families. And modern societies are not organized for this to happen."

Origin post link: https://x.com/JesusFerna7026/status/2057462189070430425

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u/JoePNW2 — 2 months ago
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Found in old persons house. Familiy was giving everything in house away or stuff would be sent to dump

u/JoePNW2 — 2 months ago