Costs a little over a quarter mil to raise a kid in the us. 20% of that is just food. Thankfully, the price goes down drastically after two. Basically every additional child also appears to come with a roughly 25% decrease in cost. Experience, hand me downs, more practice with tighter budgeting, that sort of thing.
The brunt of that cost is absorbed by the parents - that's what made state investment in children so lucrative. Consequently, while most people have just as many kids as they want - among the group of people who indicate they wished they had more, the number one reason they didn't was cost. It's not even close.
There's no drastic change gene so we can't just breed environmentalists, for example. Demographically speaking those with luxuries are the least likely to advocate for drastic change in the first place. Truth is that the drastic changes will be mostly cobbled together by the poor as a brute force of demographics. People who can't wait for tech or wealth (or the next douchebro "genius") to save them. We need to make it more affordable to raise kids and close the skills gap - ideally at the same time, and we'll enjoy a baby boom. There could be an abortion clinic on every street corner and it wouldn't matter at all.
Or, you know, we could bitch and moan impotently about what whores deserve. Bet that'll make us super-fuckable.
The brunt of that cost is absorbed by the parents - that's what made state investment in children so lucrative. Consequently, while most people have just as many kids as they want - among the group of people who indicate they wished they had more, the number one reason they didn't was cost. It's not even close.
There's no drastic change gene so we can't just breed environmentalists, for example. Demographically speaking those with luxuries are the least likely to advocate for drastic change in the first place. Truth is that the drastic changes will be mostly cobbled together by the poor as a brute force of demographics. People who can't wait for tech or wealth (or the next douchebro "genius") to save them. We need to make it more affordable to raise kids and close the skills gap - ideally at the same time, and we'll enjoy a baby boom. There could be an abortion clinic on every street corner and it wouldn't matter at all.
Or, you know, we could bitch and moan impotently about what whores deserve. Bet that'll make us super-fuckable.
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