• BlackLaZoR
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    14 days ago

    Welcome to broken society. THIS is why people fail to build families these days.

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      14 days ago

      people refuse to build families because it’s not economically viable. the cost of raising a kid has exploded the past 20 years. t

      that’s the real reason. if the economy took off in the next 5-10 years, people would go back to coupling up and popping up babies a lot more. the cost of raising a child has gone up double digits year over year, almost every year for the past 10 years.

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        14 days ago

        People were historically building families throughout far, far worse conditions than we have today. Additionally argument about insufficient income is most relevant for bottom 10-20% earners and even in countries with huge safety nets and family subsidies population is shrinking.

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          12 days ago

          it’s not an argument, it’s reality.

          birth rates and economic growth are directly correlated. people fuck and breed more when life is good, and less when it’s shitty.

          but keep telling yourself reality is just an argument if that makes you feel superior to reality, i guess? must be nice to be so smart where you think the actions of other people only exist in your own mind.

          it has nothing to do with safety nets or culture. it has everything to do with economic growth.

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            12 days ago

            it’s not an argument, it’s reality.

            The reality is that the least developed countries have highest birth rates and most developed have it very low.

            https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-vs-human-development-index

            This is an inverse correlation. Exactly opposite to your claim.

            Interesting part is that there are no highly developed countries with high birth rates, and there are no poorly developed ones with low birth rates.

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              11 days ago

              No, it’s not. It’s about economic growth.

              less developed countries have way more growth than developed ones… oi.

              highly developed countries have shit birth rates because they have shit economic growth.

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                11 days ago

                I’m not aware of any proof that growth itself drives birth rates.