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> you can't because it's ruinously expensive Crudely speaking, birth rates in poor countries are higher than in rich countries. An within countries, birth rate

• hedgehog 5y ago
  A country having high GDP or personal income doesn't mean that things like housing, healthcare, childcare, or education are more affordable. For things like that where the buyer tends to have low leverage in the transaction costs tend to climb with ability to pay. In countries with strong lending infrastructure that goes past the limits of cash and into what buyers can borrow. This decomposes to local communities too, in my city incomes are high relative to most of the US but cost of labor and all of the above services are also expensive. Median household income isn't enough to afford a 3 bedroom place to live so you can imagine that's causing some problems.
  • kelnos 5y ago
    That's not really the point the parent is making. People who are infertile do not bear children, period. People who are poor often do have children, and in greater numbers, due to a variety of factors. The fact that they have trouble supporting those children is besides the point. The children are still born. This is where the Children of Men analogy gets a bit strained. Today, fewer people have children because fewer people want to, not because they're biologically unable.