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6/12/2025, 11:58:31 AM
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The simple explanation is kind of dark. Millennials were the last large generation of kids and the current population of Western countries is being being kept afloat not by child birth but by adult fighting age men for third world countries coming in to replace the elderly as they die.
The economy surrounding the large number of children in the 80s and 90s and even the early 2000s was massive. Everything back then was basically required to have some means of reaching out to children because children were often the deciding factor of how their parents' money would be spent. The play places, toys, and arcade machines largely disappeared because kids were disappearing. I grew up in a family with me and my 3 brothers. The oldest has 3 kids and the other two only have two each and it's unlikely they will have more. I myself have none.
There are numerous complex reasons for why larger families are so much harder to start today that are far too difficult to pin down in one post (especially not on /toy/, go to /pol/ if you want some spicy theories about it) but suffice to say, businesses pivoted away from kids and towards serving working age adults about 10 years ago. We live in a largely childless civilization bereft of the joy of the nuclear family, and the window to fix it is closing fast.
The simple explanation is kind of dark. Millennials were the last large generation of kids and the current population of Western countries is being being kept afloat not by child birth but by adult fighting age men for third world countries coming in to replace the elderly as they die.
The economy surrounding the large number of children in the 80s and 90s and even the early 2000s was massive. Everything back then was basically required to have some means of reaching out to children because children were often the deciding factor of how their parents' money would be spent. The play places, toys, and arcade machines largely disappeared because kids were disappearing. I grew up in a family with me and my 3 brothers. The oldest has 3 kids and the other two only have two each and it's unlikely they will have more. I myself have none.
There are numerous complex reasons for why larger families are so much harder to start today that are far too difficult to pin down in one post (especially not on /toy/, go to /pol/ if you want some spicy theories about it) but suffice to say, businesses pivoted away from kids and towards serving working age adults about 10 years ago. We live in a largely childless civilization bereft of the joy of the nuclear family, and the window to fix it is closing fast.
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