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...rational individual choice... It's a choice in the same sense that I've chosen not to buy a Ferrari because I can't afford one.

• dionidium 4y ago
  This really doesn't make any sense. We are not poorer than our ancestors and they figured it out. People have convinced themselves that the requirements for having children are far beyond what they actually are. In fact, I think it's precisely our wealth that scares people about the prospect. You're going to have to trade away some of that wealth to have children and people are understandably nervous about that.
  • onion2k 4y ago
    We are not poorer than our ancestors and they figured it out. Quite a lot of them died in childbirth.
    • dionidium 4y ago
      Another way in which we are much richer than they were!