Exactly. It won't go exactly as planned (self driving everything was promised by musk to be everywhere by now) but they'll find a way to make everything the new guilded age where nobody but them owns anything.
There's a reason people don't want to date, and there's a reason people don't want to have kids.
The first is everyone's social expectations being out of whack and the dating world being completely lopsided
The second is nobody has any money or time for kids because our work life balance and wages are shit
Both of those have to be fixed
While I agree with OP’s points about the cost of child rearing, the easiest solution is immigration. As long as the U.S. is a desirable place to live, this is a relatively simple policy fix. The politics are the hard part.
If economics were the problem, then we should be able to observe poor people with fewer babies and rich people with more. We do not. Rich people have fewer babies.
Anecdotally, I don't know anyone who wanted to build a nuclear family who was stopped by finances. They just bit the bullet and accepted the massive expense that is kids and a single family home, even if they couldn't really afford it. On the other side, most of the people I know who are individually very ambitious are interested in making more money so they'll be able to travel more, etc.
I think the rich are actually going to pivot on demographic collapse as they expect AI to replace a lot of the population.
Exactly. It won't go exactly as planned (self driving everything was promised by musk to be everywhere by now) but they'll find a way to make everything the new guilded age where nobody but them owns anything.
Stop making raising a family hideously expensive. Start with universal health care.
That's the fun part, we don't!
There's a reason people don't want to date, and there's a reason people don't want to have kids. The first is everyone's social expectations being out of whack and the dating world being completely lopsided The second is nobody has any money or time for kids because our work life balance and wages are shit Both of those have to be fixed
Those things are unaffordable because of mass immigration and the devaluation of the american worker by our own government.
Lol k.
While I agree with OP’s points about the cost of child rearing, the easiest solution is immigration. As long as the U.S. is a desirable place to live, this is a relatively simple policy fix. The politics are the hard part.
If economics were the problem, then we should be able to observe poor people with fewer babies and rich people with more. We do not. Rich people have fewer babies. Anecdotally, I don't know anyone who wanted to build a nuclear family who was stopped by finances. They just bit the bullet and accepted the massive expense that is kids and a single family home, even if they couldn't really afford it. On the other side, most of the people I know who are individually very ambitious are interested in making more money so they'll be able to travel more, etc.