How did you make the leap from free markets vs. autarkic Juche to birth rates discourse? It's unambiguously true that free markets has made South Korea signifi

How did you make the leap from free markets vs. autarkic Juche to birth rates discourse? It's unambiguously true that free markets has made South Korea significantly, mind-bendingly wealthier than the North. And on the subject of fertility, birth rates are so low (1.8) that you have Kim Jong Un crying on national TV, begging women to have more kids. Personally, I have this pet theory (irrational, it may be) that as the boomers die off across the West, newer generations will pick up having more kids and TFR will level off. Like new growth springing up in a forest after a wildfire burns up all the old, dry wood. Something similar to the post-war baby boom.