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I’ve heard it said we shouldn’t worry about fertility because eventually those with pro-fertile genes will even things out. But this isn’t true, isn’t it? Pro-fertile genes are just “sexual desire”. The modern world takes the people with the most fertile genes and makes them infertile through artificial sexual outlets (casual sex, porn) and artificial intimacy outlets (parasocial relationships, pity politics). So there’s no optimistic evolutionary solution to infertility, there’s only a cultural solution. Or am I missing something? There’s genes for wanting to ejaculate when seeing a woman, but no gene for “wanting to ejaculate inside a woman and wait nine months to create a child”.
The latter totally exist. We dress them up as socially acceptable proxies like "reliability" and all the other traits which make for an attractive mate.
Think of it as an economics problem. If most of the human race is leaving $20 bills on the ground, someone gets to pick it up. It doesn't require a specific gene to be flipped--if there is any reasonable combination that will help, it will naturally be selected for more representation in the next generation.
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