Exactly why student loan debts, insufficient housing, and the gig economy are larger problems than they appear at first glance. Indebted, underemployed people

Exactly why student loan debts, insufficient housing, and the gig economy are larger problems than they appear at first glance. Indebted, underemployed people with just a rented bedroom and dysfunctional social safety nets are, for some odd reason, less eager to procreate. If you don't have enough grandkids, there won't be enough able-bodied people around to wipe the drool off your generation's collective chin and push your age cohort's wheelchair out to the common room. That's the real cost of pulling up the ladder after yourself. You break the generational compact by denying opportunities to young folks, and they not only won't take care of you in your sunset years, but they won't even exist to do anything for you at any price.