Simone Collins

Author and co-founder of the pronatalist movement

On the podcast

In their own words

“Education... you know, kids going to school, sitting in a classroom, facing someone up front, that really saw its rise with the industrial revolution. It existed to educate and create interchangeable parts in the British imperial empire.”March 2023, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

“They ruin standards, right? Because it makes women think that they can ultimately marry a man whose social value is much higher than hers because a bunch of men who are being lazy are slumming it with women whose social value is lower than theirs.”March 2023, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

“We're gonna try to bring back the London season... a lot of culturally aligned groups would like to meet other people from those groups, but they live in totally different cities.”March 2023, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

If you valued this conversation

• Malcolm Collins — Simone's husband and co-founder of the pronatalist movement, recorded three weeks earlier on the same demographic-collapse thesis
• Samuel Hammond — on social insurance and policy responses to the demographic trends Simone describes
• Rob Henderson — on family structure collapse and how elite cultural norms diverge from working-class outcomes

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