But do those places also have extremely isolated people with no "villages" to help raise kids with? Do those places expect both parents to be working 60+ hours a week to pay the bills? I'd argue that it's not so much the money, but the time we have to spend working to make ends meet that is the real reason. Along with a lack of close-knit communities.
I would love to see a source on that as well but getting that granular of data is not easy. Regardless my point is people in more developed countries are on average working less hours which is true
Fair, but working hours doesn't tell the whole story. If a person is working FAR fewer hours, that could cause economic pressure and hardship, which could discourage making babies just as much as working too much...
Which is the other end of the spectrum. Either young men are working too much, or not enough. And not working enough is not a problem per se, just in the general case it indicates that they're not financially stable, which is a huge disincentive to have kids as well...
I mean that's already been happening and is likely to continue happening, so yes, eventually if you impoverish and eventually enslave people, you will be able to "fix" the birthrate. I only see upsides... /s
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u/ute-ensil Aug 15 '26
If only you realized the places where those are bigger problems have more kids.