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by scripturial 397 days ago
Interesting hypothesis, I’ve not heard it before. It would suggest that atheists and nominal/non practicing religious people would decrease in number over time (whereas in the pre industrialized world everyone was incentivized to have children because they help run the farm/family business)

If true, it would suggest a future where the world is much more religious, or a world that somehow deindustrialized.

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It’s the plot to the movie Idiocracy as well.
This has already been shown to be happening right now.