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David Heinemeier Hansson

What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about demographics

@dhh · 154 positions · 10 changes of mind

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  1. Our readingFalling birth rates make a society less able to be hopeful, because nihilism creeps in when people have no stake in the future.

    Their wordsI think this is one of the great tragedies of the moment, is the falling birth rates are making it more difficult for people to be excited about a more prosperous future that is difficult to get to. Because if we're planting trees of which our children will not sit in the shades, I don't know, maybe we should just make some lumber and burn it all down, right? I think there's a nihilism that can sneak into society much more easily when we are not DNA invested in the future

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 27th of 41 in this recording

    Interesting
  2. 13 months earlier

  3. Our readingSomething is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

    Their wordsthere's something broken at the moment about how people pair up in the western world. And it's at the source of why we're not having enough children because there's not enough couples, there's not enough marriage.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 34th of 36 in this recording

    Interesting