Israel is an interesting anomaly: a modern, technologically integrated society reproducing slightly above replacement. But the most persuasive explanation I’ve seen, NonZionism’s “trickle-down natalism,” attributes Israel’s fertility to the cultural influence of the Haredim, a community with precisely the direct-accountability structure this thesis predicts would be necessary.
Aren’t the Haredi only able to live the way they do thanks to special treatment (welfare, subsidized religious schools, and until recently, draft exemptions) from the government? I wouldn’t hold them up as an example of a society that successfully sustains itself.
Aren’t the Haredi only able to live the way they do thanks to special treatment (welfare, subsidized religious schools, and until recently, draft exemptions) from the government? I wouldn’t hold them up as an example of a society that successfully sustains itself.
I’d think that if their American analogues didn’t also reproduce way above replacement.