>>513534666 (OP)because england is a resource-poor island, so maritime trade came to dominate its economy, which gave a lot of power to the merchant class, who fundamentally view the world as a giant all-against-all competition between individuals in a market for private gain, which lead to the rise of liberalism as its ideology and capitalism as its economic system, which then got exported to the rest of the world after england and then america ruled the world for the past 250 years, one consequence of which was female liberation as a) women's rights and status as individuals came to supersede their previous collective social roles and responsibilities as wives and mothers and b) capitalism incentivized this shift to take place in order to basically double the labor pool at a stroke, and the subsequent unforeseen consequence of that is that nobody is having kids since all the women are too busy studying and working and young people don't face the social pressure to get married and reproduce since, again, individualism from liberalism