I think that fertility and immigration are tied at the hip. And that most countries are not like Japan so if young people cannot afford to have kids the bureauc

I think that fertility and immigration are tied at the hip. And that most countries are not like Japan so if young people cannot afford to have kids the bureaucrats will just import the next generation. There's an idea that when a country has no easy fix to fertility through immigration, they are forced to hard fixes for difficult problems blocking young people from being able to afford to raise the next generation