Harvard professor Arthur Brooks told CNBC that Mother Nature only has two goals for us: to survive and to pass on our genes. He says she doesn’t care about our happiness. That’s our problem.

And he’s right, and so is she. And we’re not doing so well at all this. Happiness in America is falling as our birth rates and they’ve been moving together since the late 2000s.

God or Mother Nature or evolution or whoever gave us the drive for connection for status, for intimacy, assuming that would all lead to children. And it did for 200,000 years or so. Then we built the world we have today. We built an expensive society with fewer kids. And we’ve created every possible excuse to avoid human contact.

I bet Mother Nature didn’t see that one coming.

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