Birth rates in rich countries halve to new record low

10 comments

1. Well done folks! There’s hope yet.

2. yeah I ain’t trying to have a kid when everything’s this fuckin expensive

3. Now, let’s hope poor countries start doing the same.

4. housing crisis.
   If you have a house, a good job that lets you have some time and its not eating you alive.
   If you get a women that is down to it.

5. Good! Hope for even lower records.

6. Oh god there’s like 5 posts a week about low birthrates, followed by 20 comments how cost of living and housing crisis are at fault, which they are, so let’s agree on that and move on…

7. Shut up already with the fucking alarmism about fertility rates. It will continue to go down for DECADES no matter how many articles yall post.

8. There are a lot of people in the world my patience challenged

9. Rich and ruling class don’t care.

   No money to buy a house, new car, have kids and soon no money to travel. They probably believe they can make up for the collapsing birth rate temporally with migrants and long term automation and ai.

   Global warming will wipe out millions of people but they are not essential to building wealth. We are already seeing dead internet theory come true, I fully expect a dead economy theory to appear at some point.

   We are really heading towards a dystopian future rather than utopian.

10. 1. Stop corporations from buying houses, limit Airbnb’s, rentals, etc, and maybe people will have kids
    2. The population has grown to 8 billion people worldwide. Population growth the past century has been insane, it was bound to slowdown at some point.