New York Times Columnist Line of the Day, Part Deux

My god this David Brooks column is SO David Brooks it hurts. First (I mean second), this line:

Fertility rates, a good marker of confidence, are down.

Is there a machine that pumps out David Brooks weird columns about how all economic and social ills are actually because confidence or values or emotions?

Now, let\’s unpack this paragraph. I\’m just gonna go ahead and edit it for, well, correctness:

No, a big factor here is a loss in self-confidencemoney. It takes faithmoney to move. You are putting yourself through temporary expense and hardship because you have faithmoneyso that over the long run you will slingshot forward. Many highly educated people, who are still moving in high numbers, have that long-term faithmoney. Less-educated people often do not.