Yet if that is the case, why do fewer and fewer people choose to raise families? Could it be that people perceive that status goods, like living in a good neig

Yet if that is the case, why do fewer and fewer people choose to raise families? Could it be that people perceive that status goods, like living in a good neighborhood, being able to send children to good schools, are just as important as supplying material needs, and no amount of economic growth will directly deliver relative social status, which is inherently zero sum?