>The UK should consider making housing and children affordable. This seems like a good idea regardless, but I wonder if making children affordable actually inf

>The UK should consider making housing and children affordable. This seems like a good idea regardless, but I wonder if making children affordable actually influences people to have more children. Despite being intuitively obvious, it seems like wealth has the opposite effect on procreation. People who have lots of children seem to be motivated mostly by non-economic factors. Poverty of meaning seems more relevant to this issue. If you don't have an intergenerational identity that you derive deep meaning from, and believe that the future after you die matters more than the present (and near future) where you're alive, then having kids is just brutal suffering for nothing. It's like trying to convince anarcho-communists to join the military by offering really good salaries. Okay, do that. But also wonder - why don't people believe in your society? Why don't they want to fight for it? None of this is to say we shouldn't pay soldiers well, you see? Because in the past, parents and soldiers lived significantly less secure, comfortable lives, and yet... Anomie