Elite family planning at work

0:00 The more education women get, the fewer children on average they have. And there's a lot of reasons for that. One of them is just time. You put people in school longer. They'll get married later. They'll have fewer children. But there's a a more interesting feature. You think about like the long run of economic growth. As we've gotten wealthier, as countries got wealthier, in a sense, we could afford to put our kids in school. And the reason we could afford to put our kids in school is we didn't need them as labor, didn't need them as help. Um, and so that's not necessarily telling, oh, school is taking the kids away from having more kids, but it's telling you that that there's a lot of macro trends that are occurring at the same time. And it's probably a bad idea to sort of pick apart, you know, two correlations and go, "Oh, here we go. Like, let's just get the kids in school, they won't have babies." The bigger concern, there is this global elite agenda that's about uh planning, family planning, we'll say, population control. um a view that if we don't get ahead of this population curve, we're going to be toast,