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There was a significant dip in birthrates during the 1920s.

Twenty years later something terrible happened to a lot of sons.

It is plausible to me, some people lose the will to have kids, when it is most disadvantageous to have children. Something is off, we can all sense it.

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There was a significant drop in birthrates in the 1920s because millions of the men who would have fathered those children were dead.

Not so much in the US or in Finland (which effectively didn’t take part in WW1 at all)

That sense is just prior experience, from conversation, news story, etc building memory over time.

“Inequality is growing” headlines have been in the news since the 90s.

What you prescribe to ethereal magic is years of shared prior experience and exposure.

The sense experience is half of the two frames of reference. I was hoping to explore the other half as to why that might be.

Millions of men are not 'pulling through' like they used to, something is definitely off and it feels very impolite to say anything more serious about it.

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