Though noteworthy that he has taken no steps towards technical solutions for the birth rate issue
I mean, as individual men in the West go, having fourteen children is pretty above-average, and he seems to have gotten the process down to a science. He’s not a Saudi oil baron with three digits of offspring, but he’s certainly taken a Silicon Valley approach to it.
Pro-Natalists, in general, seem to take a ‘lead-by-example’ tack, which isn’t horrible considering that it demonstrates an understanding of the consequences of materially encouraging people who wouldn’t otherwise want kids to have them. I’d also say that none of the proposed policy approaches currently taken seriously by major governments have demonstrated much, if any, success, so “lead by example” would seem to be the default.
I mean, as individual men in the West go, having fourteen children is pretty above-average, and he seems to have gotten the process down to a science. He’s not a Saudi oil baron with three digits of offspring, but he’s certainly taken a Silicon Valley approach to it.
Pro-Natalists, in general, seem to take a ‘lead-by-example’ tack, which isn’t horrible considering that it demonstrates an understanding of the consequences of materially encouraging people who wouldn’t otherwise want kids to have them. I’d also say that none of the proposed policy approaches currently taken seriously by major governments have demonstrated much, if any, success, so “lead by example” would seem to be the default.