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Hardly breaking news but I'll say it anyway - - - kids are expensive. It costs north of $325k to raise a kid to age 18. That's before college.
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@Culture_Crit: Like us, Ancient Rome had a birth rate crisis. In 300 AD, Rome was a city of ~1 million people. 200 years later, hardly enough people lived there to fill the Colosseum. And their story...…
Well, it wasn't because of birth control.
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Probably both. If you don't produce enought sons for your army.........someday you won't have no army to defend Rome.
No greater motivator to earn more money than having to provide for a wife and children.
The heavy amounts of lead in Roman water wasn't helpful either.
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I agree it's expensive but I think a lot of parents make it a lot more expensive because they think their kid(s) has to have everything.
I think a comparison between Rome and Russia is more appropros.
I read the exchange. Tough for me to take anyone seriously who talks about problems being "exasperated."
Nope they can do what they want. But I guarantee you most of them regret not having kids later on.
Well, yeah, but the empire had moved the capital and all that admin function to Constantinople and then in 476 Rome was sacked by the Germanic tribes. So of course their population fell in those 200 years.
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No one can GIF like you.Would have been better served with a classic...
No need. All the antidepressants and benzodiazepines most are on explains itself.
This comparison is stupid beyond comprehension, although no one in this thread has yet been able to land on why it's stupid.
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Also, the Germanic tribes didn't just save and rebuild the empire, but also founded the feudal system that would govern western Europe for another 1000 years. That's how we got, you know, f*cking CHARLEMAGNE.
Great series of episodes about the first Frankish kings that culiminated in Charlemagne on the Rest Is History that just came out.
It seems people have identified a lot of reasons besides birth rates for Rome's population collapse. As for the comparison, I see two issues. 1) Rome was/is a city, not a country.
Rome promoted the GAY life style. That was their downfall.
