"Unlike the pronatalists, who want to solve depopulation problems by bringing in entire new demographic cohorts of people, who are likely to have radically different values from us, on a mass scale, I'd rather we preserve our culture and focus on keeping alive and healthy the people we already have."

So this is an ironic twist on the stock anti-immigrant argument to make a life-extension argument instead.

Do you actually believe it though? Ofc living longer is good, but are you opposed to natalism & having more kids?

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I consider myself a convex-natalist; I want to see a world where people feel no shame in having 0 children, but also where more people have 5+ (and society+tech is improved to make that choice more feasible for more people)

I agree with that, but clearly the second half is the hard part, right?

Having no kids is already common. Having even three (let alone 4 or 5) is increasingly rare--even in developing countries like Brazil.

In the extreme cases (parts of SF, NY) you see a stroller and there's a little dog inside

Yeah, it's hard. The obvious low-cost first step for megacities is just YIMBY reform so it's affordable for people to have enough space.