"This isn’t hard, people are having less children because the economy is crumbling. " Overwhelmingly people are having less children because 'birth control'. T

"This isn’t hard, people are having less children because the economy is crumbling. " Overwhelmingly people are having less children because 'birth control'. This is a giant social change that we don't remotely talk enough about. 'Sex' 50 years ago meant 'pregnancy'. Our current social mores would not remotely be possible without effective and fairly widespread birth control. 80% of our young girls would be pregnant by 21. Secondarily - social change and the aspirations of both young men and women. " the economy is crumbling" ? COVID aside, what do you mean by 'crumbling'? GDP per capita is rising, unemployment is historically very low, and in reality 'real wages' are actually doing ok. The purchasing power of working class people in 2020 is considerably greater than 50 years ago. Walmart, my god man, that store alone has changed everything. The stuff you an buy, for the prices, it's just shocking. Economic factors are important - for example, in Quebec they've instituted $5/day day care and that has actually moved the needle. But our choice to have 2 jobs is very much that - a choice. We could have more kids and different kinds of lives. Real estate would be cheaper, but homes would probably be a little less nice, we'd eat out less and have slightly less stuff.