Anyone have some kind of even handed analysis on hand that explains whether or not all this panic for decades about birth/fertility rates has legs? I only ever give it a passing glance and i accidentally clicked a video the other day and it was some rightwing guy talking about some retvrn shit

I asked bc like the article states: the real problem is the price of housing. It seems to me that falling birth rates are a symptom of capitalism's decline. However, many article writers seem to dance around that

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Highly developed capitalist countries tend to have low birth rates because people are alienated and atomized and having children is an untenable burden for workers who are already working themselves to exhaustion and barely getting by.

[–] boardbyboard@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

agree and i appreciate it, I think I was just getting too internet brained and thinking how often the issue is presented disingenuously in a vacuum or tied to a loss of 'cultural values' or w/e

[–] LeBron@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago

I think some people underestimate how obscenely expensive raising a baby is, borderline impossible without a strong support system