Behavioural Psychologist: We're Not Having Enough Sex! Fat Makes You Attractive & The Poorer You Are The Friendlier You Are!

Do you believe the robots are gonna raise our kids because it feels like a slippery slope. Well it's not too far away from us, and we never evolved to want children. Look, fertility rates are going way down and a lot of countries are gonna be literally half their size by the year 2100 because they're shrinking so fast. And the list is really long about how hard it is to raise the child in today's world. So you wanna make having kids to be as much of a plus as it possibly can be. And with the perfect robot, Nanny, you would never worry at all. Interesting. Dr. William Von Hippel is the world-renowned evolutionary psychologist who has spent decades studying and finding the answers to how instincts that once helped our ancestors survive still drive us today, often in ways we don't even realize. As a species. What are we getting wrong? Well, young people having less sex than they were 20 years ago. Marriage is steadily going down. And our lives are so much better, but we're not any happier.

And part of the problem is that we're constantly choosing to do our own thing rather than connect. So here's the data. In 1850, one in a hundred Americans lived alone. Now it's one in seven. In the 1970s, one in three people spent time with their neighbors. Now that's completely reversed. Now, let's dive a little deeper. 50% of humanity now lives in the city. Then they're about 25% wealthier than people who live in the country. And yet in the day to show people in the country are happier because cities are all about I want to do what I want. And the problem is that we can't introduce such a connection into our life willy-nilly or we won't keep it up. So what do we do about that? Two things. One And then what does evolution tell us about how to attract the opposite sexes? We want honest signals of quality. And bizarre, one of the clearest honest signals for men to demonstrate for women is I have been forced into a bet with my team. We're about to hit ten million subscribers on YouTube, which is our biggest milestone ever, thanks to all of you, and we want to have a massive party for the people that have worked on this show for years behind the scenes. So they said to me, Steve, for every new subscriber we get in the next thirty days, can one dollar be given to our celebration fund? For the entire team.

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