Progress in women's rights and people becoming less religious are far bigger factors in fertililty decline than economic prosperity and capitalism, it just so happens that the latter is correlated with the former.
I think this is the first time I've read someone think about the question: "What if the religious do out-breed the secular" in economic terms, without dwelling on how that would be a scary place. Just pointing out that capitalism erodes religion just as it does any other human bonds.
Progress in women's rights and people becoming less religious are far bigger factors in fertililty decline than economic prosperity and capitalism, it just so happens that the latter is correlated with the former.
It's a feedback loop at this point.
I think this is the first time I've read someone think about the question: "What if the religious do out-breed the secular" in economic terms, without dwelling on how that would be a scary place. Just pointing out that capitalism erodes religion just as it does any other human bonds.
"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned..."