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I'm 30 years old. Not one of my friends has children. Zero. No one. No one's having kids.

Do you know how hard you need to abuse a mammal to make them not have children?

Like, for real. Let's step here back a moment, right?

Never thought of it that way.

Yeah, look, GDP goes up. People have a lot of, have enough food, you know, and whatever.

No one's having kids. And this is across the world. This is across the West, the East,

you know, everywhere it's happening. So there's the thing that happens,

even younger than me. The kids are like 18 today. There's a huge problem where they don't dance.

No one dances. They go to clubs and they don't dance. Why is this? Because you get recorded.

If you're an 18-year-old kid, you go to a club, you get recorded. If you approach a girl and you

mess it up, you get recorded. Everything is the panopticon now. So if you had to ask me why,

my answer is technology. My answer is social media. My answer is AI. My answer is algorithms.

Do you know what dating app algorithms do? Do you know how they optimize? They don't optimize for

you to meet your love of your life. They optimize you to keep coming back to the app. And now

there's the thing that basically we have sold out all of our dating norms, all of our interpersonal

norms to tech companies without our consent to optimize their ad algorithm. I think there's a

deep thing where we as a society have not dealt with the fact that we have to steward technology

responsibly. We have treated technology as a Wild West. Everyone can do whatever they want.

Oh, just sell all of our younger generations' dating lives to corporations for profit. And who

pays the cost for this? Who has liability? So I think the real problem is that we are, as a

society, as a government, the generations that came before me and also my generation, I don't

want to exclude myself from this, but all the generations that came before me, just let

technology rip. The promise was if you let technology rip, if you let internet rip, there

will be democracy and freedom and happiness and economic growth. And where is that? I think my

generation is noticing that broken promise.