Elon Musk points out an inverse correlation: the more educated, wealthy, and secular a population becomes, the lower its birth rate drops. The very traits that define a successful society — high income, advanced education, low religiosity — are the same ones driving it toward demographic extinction. This reframes declining fertility not as a personal failing but as a predictable consequence of civilizational achievement.
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