People self report not having kids because of monetary concerns en masse but poverty didn't have this effect on natalism in the past. I think there is an ideolo

People self report not having kids because of monetary concerns en masse but poverty didn't have this effect on natalism in the past. I think there is an ideological component. Because continental philosophy in the wake of the world wars has alerted us to the fungibility of every asset class regardless of abstraction, all kinds of religiosity and spirituality have declined. Schumpeter, Buffett, Fisher and Derrida are all in agreement that this is all there is and all there ever will be. This has produced an antithesis in the public mind to value quality over quantity. In our rapidly changing economy, however, quality over quantity approaches lead to a lot of wait-and-see outcomes. If you can conceive of reproduction by people as a capital good produced by a business then you'll be shocked at how well the notion of a capital strike fits the outcomes.