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And yet in times century ago every simple farmer understood it. The principle is simple, watching your childless neighbors relatively suffer is not hard to und
by ty6853 1y ago
And yet in times century ago every simple farmer understood it. The principle is simple, watching your childless neighbors relatively suffer is not hard to understand.
That calculus totally changes if the childless neighbor can just send armed men to collect the neighbor child's income and redistribute it to themselves.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoDoubt this is the explanation. Fertility has declined because easy access to contraception has completely altered the trade-off of having kids. Before you could essentially be celibate and not have kids or you could be sexually active and eventually end up with kids. People want to fuck more than they don't want kids. Contraception (especially the pill), has eliminated this trade-off. Now people can have their cake and eat it too.
- ty6853 1y agoFertility has probably declined due to both. The west and places with socialized systems in Asia though have seen inverted population pyramids.