The economy is moving us back into the 19th century as fertility rates plunge

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1. Yeah nobody can afford kids nowadays

2. Not in Africa, not in India or the Middle East…..

3. Nowhere in the article does it mention the 19th century or give any explanation of the title. Average American wealth is much higher than it was 150 years ago. I’m guessing there’s non economic factors that contribute to fewer people having children

4. Yeah, the “economy”

5. They need to plunge much further

   Billions of people all vying to have it all is
   Not sustainable…

   Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell

6. Right, except they didn’t have robots and AI in the 19th century.

   Functional reasons for growing population sizes are waning, better for the capacity of the earth long-term.

   Lol at some of the comments in here, it’s got nothing to do with sexual identities or downturn in religion. It’s too expensive boomers, this is why you don’t have grandkids, and it’s the bed you made.

7. Well people don’t remember before the boomer generation. WWll brought a toooonnn of people and an economy to support that. We’re just transitioning back to pre WWll times.