The issue is the loss of a village. The "laziness" here isn't just the working parents to be. Old people could help a great deal with child care, instead the

The issue is the loss of a village. The "laziness" here isn't just the working parents to be. Old people could help a great deal with child care, instead the boomer capitalist mindset is "retirement" and getting "taken care of". That's the clear solution. The elderly have a clear obligation to help the younger productive generations raise kids. They don't. Aside from these issues are the saturation of entertainment/video games, emphasis on look at me consumption while raising kids just needs pragmatic consumption, feminism, birth control, abortion (I am pro choice but it has a demographic cost), overwork, porn, internet dating isn't aligned with long-term relationships, drop in religion. It all combined to less means, less time, less interest. Single consumers are what western capitalism is strongly optimized for, and the cultural bulwarks have basically collapsed. I used to be worried about the infinite growth /consumption of capitalism, but urbanization is the precise weapon environmentalism needs. Nothing will work because the rich get richer off of all of this. The medium term solution is immigration, which converts low resource consuming people to high resource consumption, but that's just a generational delay in the inevitable demographic decline. It's hilarious we talk about AI simply slotting into the economy while consumer capitalism withers away the biological aspects over generations. Its scifi come to life.