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Man, they are gonna have to start actually paying the wage slaves if they want them to make more wage slaves.
Weird how people keep saying things like this despite the clear inverse relationship between income and fertility.
Incomes for the bottom 99% have stagnated over the last 30 years, so how do you reconcile that with this reported drop in fertility? I don't think it's weird that people see a causal relationship where one obviously exists. I think that the inverse relationship that you're talking about is only one factor in influencing fertility rates, and you're conflating incomes with affordability.
Fertility rates have been falling across the world since the baby boom that followed WW2 in line with greater female education and labour market participation. Also people from poorer and less educated background in wealthy countries are the people who have the highest fertility rates.