Worth reading:
From his post:
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive
Nearly all media and social media commentary on the fertility rate decline blames contemporary economics or politics. But the decline has been underway for 200+ years in the U.S. and for almost 70 years, globally.
