As dumb as it sounds I think the solution is to only pay high income earners to have kids. Not for any kind of moralistic reason but because every time it's sur

As dumb as it sounds I think the solution is to only pay high income earners to have kids. Not for any kind of moralistic reason but because every time it's surveyed high income earners believe the minimum "lifestyle" required to ethically raise a child is much higher than people with lower incomes. So people living comfortably as DINKs will only raise a child if they can give their kid the same comfortable life they enjoy and often times they can't once you account for high healthcare, daycare and private school costs. You can be like "well then they shouldn't have such high expectations, expect and accept a lifestyle drop, and send their kids to public school" but you're yelling at a river to change course.