And everybody in that room who understood the implications was in shock because we went from 1.9, which is already extremely low, 1.75, and it was the greatest drop in fertility that has been seen in human history. Two is the replacement rate, right? Two is the replacement rate. And they actually believe that we're somewhere around 1.4 because there is data manipulation. So it has all these kind of economic implications like, you know, our ability to support Medicare and the date when the Social Security Trust fund is going to run out of money. (16:33–16:43)
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Asserts that the U.S. fertility rate is believed to be around 1.4 due to data manipulation.
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