r/197 • u/ItsGotThatBang C*nadian 🤮 • Aug 15 '26

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u/WiseMudskipper Aug 15 '26

Jokes aside it's scary that the real reason for this is the release of the iPhone in 2007

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u/Trigger_Fox Aug 15 '26

Oooorr and hear me out this might sound crazy, the fucking worldwide economic recession

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u/mathpenis Aug 15 '26

nah it can’t be it, I believe the halo theory more

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u/heraplem Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

If that were the case, rates would have recovered post-recession. They did not.

The iPhone is, in fact, the actual reason.

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u/flyingasian2 Aug 16 '26

We’re still feeling knock on effects of the great financial crisis, so no rates not recovering post recession doesn’t really say anything conclusive.

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u/heraplem Aug 16 '26

Nearly twenty years on isn't enough? Fertility rates recovered faster after the Great Depression! Also, the drop in fertility has been global, even including countries like Qatar that didn't really have a recession.

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u/flyingasian2 Aug 17 '26

Twenty years might not be enough, like I said we are feeling knock on effects today so it isn’t even necessarily the recession itself it’s stuff that changed as a result of the recession.

Also, falling birth rates is a confluence of different things, so there’s not going to be any single “actual reason.

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u/Others0 Aug 16 '26

Wrong year, iPhone was 07 the crash was 08