I think “money” falls short as an explanation (though it’s certainly part of it). Countries like Sweden have substantially better state support for parents that the standard and the Swedish population isn’t exactly poor in general, either, yet they aren’t really getting that many more children than poorer countries with less support for parents.
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: money. It’s always just money.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Maybe so much money you can get other people to raise your kids for you, that kinda money 😎
Redacted@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also, civilsation is going to be brought to its knees by climate change in the coming decades.
Feels somewhat immoral to put someone you love through that.
Photuris@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Automation is going to chew up jobs faster than new ones are created, too.
Reduce the value of white collar labor, and white collar workers will flood to the blue collar trades, drastically reducing pay there as well.
Not a suitable environment for growing large families.