Robin Hanson is an economist, and creator of the popular blog Overcoming Bias. In this episode, he talks about how Western culture has created a cultural monopoly, killing diversity and lowering birth rates. Timestamps 8:20 - 8:56 - What is Culture ? 9:50 - 10:50 - Why we accept Cultural Changes 17:00 - 17-20 - The West has Culture 18:23 - 19:00 - How Nation are build by destroying local culture 20:36 - 21:17 - Strange culture of Elites 22:00 - 23:00 - Culture in Corporates 34:48 - 35:30 - Reasons for Decline in Fertility 38:04 - 38:40 - Working Women and low fertility 41:55 - 42:40 - Raising Kids have become expensive 49:25 - 49: 33 - The self destructive West 58:48 - 59:23 - Economists are sacrificing humans for profits 01:06:30 - 01:07 :20 - Why humanity won’t go extinct 01:08:25 - 01:09:17 - Western Civilization will collapse soon 01:09:25 - 01:10:016 - Why hyper nerds don’t want to have kids 01:11:25 - 01:14:50 - Why High Quality Women remain single 01:16:35 - 01:17:25 - Having kids is mysterious 01:17:25 - 01:21:15 - Do people hate having kids ? 01:33:20 - 01:37:02 - Kids' future as a financial investment 01:44:30 - 01:45:15 - AI will take over Humans 01:51:00 - 01:52:54 - Can Big personalities impact or change culture of not having kids 01:53:35 - 01:53:58 - “You are insanely black pilled” 01:54:00 - 01:54:42 - Each voter have very small influence on elections through voting