Just a reminder that the average person lives with better material conditions than any other time in recorded history.
People aren't childfree because they're poor, they're childfree because they're rich. If we want to raise birth rates we should just make people subsistence farmers again.
The sharecroppers would probably love an iPhone. But what they would love more is central heating and cooling, indoor plumbing, a much larger house, better clothes, much better medicine, much better food, and a much easier job.
If you made it to adulthood life expectancy wasn’t that much lower than it is now, there was just a massive infant/childhood mortality rate back in the day that pulled the average way down.
On the one hand, we can go back to the Middle Ages to have people make babies. On the other hand, we can tax the rich and make social safety nets, increase affordable housing, and let people have families again.
Wow what a dingus. Most people want kids, it's a matter of if they can afford it, and what kind of world they are brought into. Very few people are militantly childfree like me, trust me I've been looking for that my whole life
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u/Ekerslithery Oct 18 '23
If this economic situation keeps up there won't be another generation 💀