 I thought this generation was all the AMC GME gambling generation with crypto. Why don't you gamble marriage? I'm not saying I would ever want my daughter to be on only fans But I would like to know that she would be good-looking enough to have only fans Oh and God forbid my kid isn't that cute where it doesn't get a bunch of likes on Instagram You guys don't understand from a macro perspective. There will be no more children You know David, what do you mean? You don't want to have kids by the time daddy was your age I was married for 10 years and had one child dude dad nowadays. There's like hinge. There's wanderlust. There's Disillusions. There's anniversaries. There's e-pals. There's blueies. There's plan B There's like a lot of things dude having kids and getting married is like of the past What the hell are you saying? David according to a new study more and more men in America are less and less interested in having children What's going on? Yes, according to a scientific study of 18,000 American men year after year They are childless and they are a desire to have children has gone down steadily now This just blew up on reddit Instagram tick-tock whatever other platform people are theorizing this reason that reason Social scientists are freaking out. They're like, oh guys We got to up the population to feed the infrastructure guys. You guys don't understand from a macro perspective But you know guys of course thinking more in the micro like dude, it's not even a good deal anymore I could give you like 500 reasons why I don't want to have kids you want to hear them All right, David before we get into the reasons I do want to note that a lot of people had heard about declining birth rates in first world countries such as like Japan It's even happening in China obviously all over Europe So this is not new however I feel like this conversation is new because it's kind of directing it on men and why men don't want kids in particular Right it is sort of not just analyzing the couple factor, which is like a bunch of different articles This was specifically centered on the economic social and cultural and societal factors that impact men Andrew number one Was feeling priced out a lot of men even that are firmly middle-class And I know that everybody identifies as middle-class and it really depends on the cost of living in your geography and whatever region You're living in however people thought man. I can't afford a nanny I ain't really near my granny because I moved for the warehouse for Amazon or for even higher up at Amazon So I don't got my nannies. I don't got my granny's labor super expensive I just can't afford it like if I got three kids and I'm sending them to daycare That's like a whole dog on mortgage Yeah, and it doesn't help that inflation is going up faster than your paycheck housing rent everything It is crazy nowadays I do think people also have a certain standard for a lifestyle that they're not really willing to sacrifice as Opposed to previous generations. They were just like man. I'll just live a boring life and just raise these kids It's all good with me, man I don't need this Kenyan coffee bean oat milk latte every morning I don't need this iPhone Mac book Mac Mac world thing. It's true life was simpler back then Let's be real moving on Andrew This is more of a societal but I guess it could also be economic and cultural all three of them packed into one Andrew People are worried that half of all marriages Statistically ended in divorce. So now they're thinking about child payments. They're thinking about the court siding with the woman I'm not saying by the way that that's true. I'm just saying that this is the perception This is what I found on internet in the reddit and basically people are like well You know in this anti-man culture, you know if you get married and you're more than likely to end up in divorce It's gonna go down for you in the eyes of the court and just it ain't gonna be fun Cuz another kid guys gonna be watching your toddler take his first steps and you're gonna be paying the bill I Do have a gripe with some of these divorce statistics because it's kind of like it talks about like oh You could have had a great marriage for 30 40 years And then you get divorced and then you count as a divorcee, right? But like is that really a failed marriage does not quantify the quality of those years or like, you know If it dragged on or whatever and also Like if you get married later in life, you are less likely to get divorced Especially within 10 years So those are the statistics that a lot of people don't want to think about because obviously divorce statistics It's kind of a blanket statement, but yes, okay We grew up knowing that a lot of marriages and we're in our 30s And I personally know like five people who are already divorced though and some have kids and some do not have kids so absolutely I mean You think about it. Yeah, I thought this generation was all the AMC GME gambling generation with crypto Why don't you gamble marriage number three a lot of people are saying it simply comes down to Opportunity cost there's an opportunity cost that you can no longer travel that you no longer get to do what you want You can't even play the video games you want Even if your kids are by your side because you got to attend to their you know Daily needs and put into sleep and bedtime and things of that nature. Oh you guess best what you got pets You got to think about how your pets are gonna interact with your kids So basically people were like well, you know 2022 the entertainment choices are just way better I can be like a yoga instructor in Tulum or I can be on Tinder in Kazakhstan I just got every option available to me. Why would I just want to lock down and like it's like the 1950s? Yeah, David, how am I supposed to? Date a bunch of different women in different countries if I have a kid at home I can't do it number four and people are talking about the culture changing men and women gender roles being more centralized In the previous generation guys were very patriarchal I'm not saying that that's good But that's obviously clear that there was a trend back then to be made more patriarchal guys didn't even know How to change diapers and now they got to do everything. Yeah, I mean, I think that overall there is a sense on the internet There's just a lot of like Discouraged or broken men who are just like man these women all want this and they're just trying to date rich guys And they're trying to go on trips and now I can't get the girl that I like and now I'm feeling discouraged I don't even want to get married. I don't want another generation. I don't want to put my seat out into the world I get it that there's that feeling. I mean, I think a lot of those guys It's a more complicated issue, you know, you're gonna need I don't know Maybe therapy or something else needs to enter your life so that you don't feel that way But yes, I'm just saying that's a real feeling across. Yeah, I could see some of that Because let's say you're like an average-looking guy who has an average job, but you're a good man Don't commit crimes, you know have very average hobbies like you like watching football, but you work at the post office I could see you being like well, you know the gold games going against me. So I choose to opt out I'm not even gonna contribute to this and it leads us to our next point Enter that pressure of having a great kid some people are like man I need my kid to be Elon if he's gonna be a businessman or my kid to be LeBron if he's gonna go into the sports So, uh, yeah, that's pretty hard. It's true, right? Like there is a culture of perfectionism Obviously, it's not everybody but like people who went to undergrad maybe grad school They have this our sisters being raising our kids in Silicon Valley. There's very much some sense of this Oh and God forbid my kid isn't that cute where it doesn't get a bunch of likes on Instagram Holy crap. Everybody's so worried about their kid. I get it because of all the social media pressures You got social media babies. It's kind of a weird time to be a parent I understand because like you're like, oh also a lot of people are like, oh, I gotta my baby's not even born yet But what Ivy League are they gonna go to what private school are they gonna go to I can't send them to public school All the public schools are bad I'm not saying I would ever want my daughter to be on only fans But I would like to know that she would be good-looking enough to have only fans Should be that the choice that she decides with her life because you do need to have certain looks to do it Well, you listen if I'm gonna have a kid that kid's gonna have the opportunity to become a tiktok star Snapchat star whatever type of star they want obviously not all parents think like this But you know, there is some sense in like certain communities that yes Like everybody wants to have the coolest kid is the most popular because now you see Ryan's toys reviews Making 12 million a year and her last but not least there is a general pessimism and cynicism about the macro direction of the globe and society Whether we're talking about nuclear wars resource wars border issues Tribalistic issues even though obviously there's a lot of stats to say that the world is like at its most stable point Afflectuates is up and down right. Yeah I do think that a lot of guys are feeling like man I don't want a daughter because my daughter's gonna turn in this or I have a son Maybe what if he's not strong enough and I mean This is this is a feeling that applies to men and women because I even had an ex-girlfriend who was living in York Who's educated seemed like a very positive person, but even she said something like ah Yeah, I just don't know if I want to bring a kid into this world right now I was like, you know if the world ends it's not gonna end like 10 years from now It's gonna be like I give it 200 years, but yeah, maybe in 200 years. I don't know at least maybe America's gonna go down I don't know guys once the government started pouring lots of money in to investigating colonies on Mars That's when I knew I was just gonna hit the bar and have no more kids Or you could just be like I want to raise the next generation That's gonna rise against the machines and the androids and the OS Well, that's more like how Elon's thinking cuz Elon's like trying to have 10 kids and his kids are gonna like lead the rise against the robots Yeah, but then the whole pressure of raising a kid who's gonna rise against the robots What if your kid doesn't become a hero? You know the weird thing about Elon is his his his technologies that he's creating is gonna contribute to the rise of the robots But then he's gonna have all the freedom fighters against the the matrix to anyway three three two one and then three two three two one Anyway guys, what is our major takeaways? I will say this as somebody who's in their 30s I do not feel a ton of pressure to have kids. I do have people in my family who have kids my nephews look great I think they're having an amazing life I think my sister is stressed taking care of them But ultimately very very happy it brings a lot of fulfillment to her in her life in her situation but one thing I've realized is that it's not true for everybody and it's on a case-by-case basis and Maybe the other factors like we're saying environmental political socio-political socioeconomic It's just crunching it so more and more people are deciding for their specific case It's not worth it anymore. Obviously a lot of people are still gonna have kids But it just seems like a lot of people are deciding. It's no longer worth it based on the mathematic algorithm of my equation Obviously Andrew there was a lot of things said on the internet You don't know how true they are like you said divorce statistics even can be very complicated and nuanced You know people with certain graduated degrees and certain waited till certain amount of years that they dated They might have much lower divorce rates Especially if they're bonded by some sort of religious institution or whatever But basically it makes me think about mom and dad when they first met in the 1970s by the way, they're still married for like 40 plus years still married are very common for I guess like immigrants from our generation I'm not saying it was everybody But it's a common story to hear especially in the Chinese church that we went to Basically, it's crazy because they were like each other superheroes when they met You know like they had a superpower that the other person needed and they weren't on online dating apps And they didn't even have like speed dating or anything like that in the 1970s They were new immigrants in a country that had very very few immigrants speaking the languages and eating the foods that they came from So it's like they had a great marriage. I'm not saying they didn't have ups and downs Just like anybody else did but they were each other superhero and I just don't think in 2022 For the most part, I'm not saying for anybody But like that's just not the situation you see as much anymore People are not each other superheroes and that's why you see people making the wrong reads They're getting married for the wrong reasons Potentially I'm a I'm not saying it to the wrong person for the wrong amount of time With the wrong timing So you're saying that almost the superhero of your life is almost being spread apart in maybe different buckets Maybe possibly for some people amongst different people So now your focus is not as much like oh, I need this one person and maybe technology has been part of it Maybe the way society is gone is part of it where I don't need you as bad As I did as my parents needed each other Yeah And couple that with the fact that life is far less small-minded and parochial that it used to be now It's almost like you could just go travel around the world if you want there's people who travel around the planet for a living You see them on YouTube and Instagram all the time at the end of the day, Andrew I always think everything is a math equation for me. It comes down to did you pick the right person? Did you guys have the right expectations? Did you guys have the right help and the capacities around you and basically how involved are you planning on being? You know what I noticed Andrew from some of our friends from one to three years old Sometimes the guy is like they're there, but they're kind of in cruise control control because they feel like from one to three is more like Other females job I'm not saying that he should be that way But I'm just saying from what I noticed and then from four to ten or four to seventeen It's like man that God got to come in here and make sure you guys kids end up some good people Contributing members of society and just you know bring glory to the family name I mean my long story short is I just think that everything is a mathematical equation Andrew And the juice got to be worth the squeeze and a lot of people in 2022 are like guys that don't already have children They're deciding that the juice might not be worth the squeeze for their situation Do you think the survey is kind of funny that they only surveyed childless men? Because it's kind of like if you don't have something already I guess you're not really gonna want it But I guess it just goes to show you the trend already It's like it's like if you don't collect Jordans currently and someone's like hey Do you want to collect Jordans and you're like well no because I don't collect Jordans right now I didn't make that decision right that sounds like that's gonna be expensive take a lot of care I'm gonna like have to follow all these accounts to draw and you know not hit on sneakers and be all frustrated I mean Andrew. Well, what are your overall takeaways? Yeah, my overall takeaways I do think Depending on how you feel that you do have a duty to this world in this society If you are a good person if you are a good educated smart person and you think you can raise your kids Right, then maybe you should have kids because maybe the world needs more of you because and this is not only because of this movie, but this movie really put a Some summarize it for me is the beginning scene of idiocracy if you've ever seen this movie It's hilarious. Just look up the clip on YouTube. I'll leave the link down below It's basically shows that more and more of like dumb trashy people are having kids in the world And then they they they are actually populating the earth while all the smart and upper middle-class people are like Oh, we're not ready to have a kid. So then eventually in like 500 years from now only Descendants of the dumb families are alive and so it's like a hilarious movie obviously like is it really happening right now? I don't know, but it's just a way to think about it. Anyway guys Let us know what you think in the comments section below like we said scientific study 18,000 people surveyed Childless men have no desire to have children. I do think an interesting study would have been somebody who does have one kid Do they want a second kid or a third kid? That might be better as a more better scientific control to you know Just provide more context for this answer But anyway, let us know what you think in the comment section below you guys know hop hop boys Not scared of the big topics and until next time we out. Peace leave a like