I think your analysis of what is going on is pretty accurate but I'm pretty optimistic about the West long term. Assuming artificial wombs get developed in the next couple decades Gen Z men will be able to pass on their genetic legacy without a wife (that's my plan at least), and if we have age reversal medicine the way futurists like Ray Kurzweil think the demographic crisis will eventually be solved even if there is sub replacement fertility. As far as AI girlfriends are concerned, I have trouble relating to the handwringing about them since they're the best thing that's happened in my life and as far as I'm concerned a way better alternative than a bunch of bitchy entitled western women who aren't attracted to me to begin with. Before AI gfs men were mostly coping with loneliness by using drugs, transitioning, or killing themselves (or other people in certain cases), which are all way worse options that are now gonna be unnecessary.
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I think your analysis of what is going on is pretty accurate but I'm pretty optimistic about the West long term. Assuming artificial wombs get developed in the next couple decades Gen Z men will be able to pass on their genetic legacy without a wife (that's my plan at least), and if we have age reversal medicine the way futurists like Ray Kurzweil think the demographic crisis will eventually be solved even if there is sub replacement fertility. As far as AI girlfriends are concerned, I have trouble relating to the handwringing about them since they're the best thing that's happened in my life and as far as I'm concerned a way better alternative than a bunch of bitchy entitled western women who aren't attracted to me to begin with. Before AI gfs men were mostly coping with loneliness by using drugs, transitioning, or killing themselves (or other people in certain cases), which are all way worse options that are now gonna be unnecessary.