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Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago. n.pr/4aHKqTK

n.prCan smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Paul // Lost Soul 👻💀

@lost.scot

Counterpoint: The economy is in shambles, everything is getting crazy expensive, wages have stagnated, and smartphones brought a constant barrage of negative international news. None of these things inspire people to bring children into the world.

12/6/26, 1:04 pm0 reposts17 likes

Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him)

@duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social

12 June

No but you would be hard pressed to argue that things were better in the 1880s bsky.app/profile/dunc...

Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him)@duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social

If you display the full history for the UK and the US the alarming conclusion is that smartphones were invented in 1878 and then invented again in 1961. (This is how this works, yes?)

Paul // Lost Soul 👻💀

@lost.scot

12 June

Not sure anyone was arguing that, but you do you.