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We are having less children because we are wealthy. Otherwise, you are making the argument that the birthrate in Africa is because of economic opportunity when
by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
We are having less children because we are wealthy. Otherwise, you are making the argument that the birthrate in Africa is because of economic opportunity when in fact it is the lack of economic opportunity that causes higher birthrates.
As intentionally child free, I even see this in myself. I am child free because I can think of all the opportunity I have that I don't want to give up. While if I had no opportunity, I would want to have a child who I could raise to do better economically than myself because I don't see any opportunity in my own lifetime.
- metalman 11mo agorural Candian, who has traveled the world here: and you clearly are not talking to the vast majority of Can/US/Mex ,working class people who are stuck in technologicaly enabled doom loops of exploitive financial circumstance that limits there ability to finance basic self care, let alone anything exceptional like a house and kids, which they want, but are fed naratives designed to increase self doubt, and compensate with unessesary pointless expensive consumption