>>105570033>So far no country managed to reverse such a trend.Well yeah, the issue is fundamentallu about money and people not having enough of it.
Gotta have a house, a car, and a steady income to pay for bills and mortgage repayments (+/- savings and retirement) if you want to have a kid and raise it responsibly, meanwhile we've been hit by recession after recession- and seen unprecedented cost of living increases in a time where wages had already been stagnating for a good long while.
If you want babies you have to pay people more so they can afford a house with more rooms, a car with more seats, then there's the child care costs (fuck if you can even afford to rent a place on one income these days), school fees, and to keep the damn things fed and clothed. But employers don't want to pay more, they want to pay kickbacks to the shareholders and board of directors, and to give the CEO his yearly bonus of $100M+ and anything else is secondary because this whole system exists purely to enrich those people.
There's that joke in the flashback episode of the Simpsons where Marge was seeing Dr Hibbert about morning sickness or whatever in the early stages of being pregnant with Bart, and he gives her the "So you've decided to ruin your life..." pamphlet, and think about it- that was a joke in the 90s about the economy in the 80s. As it stands these days, at least in America, the cost of giving birth alone (ie. hospital fees for use of the birthing suite) can actually bankrupt young people. And that's the fucking problem you need to target and actually fix before you can complain about the damn birth rate. But nah it's easier to just import more immigrants, who come from such deplorable conditions and are so happy to escape them that it also puts downward pressure on the wages of citizens; it's the perfect system to benefit the rich and rich only.
