All the actions taken, or maybe suggested to be causal, seem kind of socialist. No market driven solutions at all. Are we sure this is correct?
TLDR Society is going to have to pay for kids if they want to attempt to have more kids in society, because kids are expensive.
Socialism is a major factor why people have fewer kids. If the state is going to take care of you, it replaces family in this regard, and there is less incentive to build up a family as opposed to go it alone, backstopped by the state.
Wealth is not positively correlated with fertility, it seems to be an excuse well off people use for why they won’t have kids.
We expect humans, who exist without their consent, to earn a living during their lifetime; no reason they can’t save for elder care vs spend hundreds of thousands of dollars raising kids under no obligation to care for them decades in the future.
Rightsizing the global population pyramid scheme through fertility choice empowerment is going to be painful unfortunately. It was a form of debt issued, and will slowly be “paid back” as structural demographics compress over the next 100-200 years.
(in the US, the cost to raise a child from 0-18 in 2023 dollars is ~$330k, not including childcare or college)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GeVG0XYTc
[2] https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/04/msu-study-finds-number...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44749557 (citations)
How much evidence would it take to change your mind?
toomuchtodo•3mo ago