> but it is an indisputable fact that somewhere else, someone's raising not just one child, but many, on income you'd call pocket change. This is true, but the

> but it is an indisputable fact that somewhere else, someone's raising not just one child, but many, on income you'd call pocket change. This is true, but there's also been 50 years of not progress, but a concentrated effort to turn us all into hyper-consumerists. Media, government, corporations, have prioritized growth for decades. Predictably we now have a population that cares more about buying disposable trinkets than having a family. Ironically, declining population is now hurting economic growth.