Maybe we should be less focused on making more people, and more focused on enabling living people to work together to meet each other's needs?

People will have children. But the only thing that pushes the nationalistic desires to have a positive birth rate is the zealotry around eternal 3%+ growth of financial product. That needs a growing consumer base.

We could be achieving an economic degrowth while simultaneously increasing the standard of living. Instead we have tech billionaires, a venture capitalist class, and a war on women's(as well everyone else's) bodily autonomy.