Do We Need To Have More Babies?

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• Episode: Do We Need To Have More Babies?
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• Duration: 00:31:13
• Published: 2025-03-06 11:00

Silicon Valley is obsessed with solutionism. So, it shouldn't come as a surprise that when it comes to a declining birth rate some of the valley’s elite have a clear answer: more babies at all costs. Today on the show, we talk about the pronatalism movement and how ideas around increasing birth rates are trending among some of the valley’s biggest and wealthiest names. 

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