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I would blame declining birth rates to liberalism and capitalism.
I'd blame contraception. And by blame I mean celebrate.
But the idea that teenagers aren't fucking because Capitalism really undersells the impact of hormones. Kids fucked under feudalism. They fucked under theocracy. They fucked as puritans. They fucked as cave people. The mode of production isn't what's at issue.
Birth rates in North Korea are still below replacement level, same as South Korea. Some of the highest birthrates in the world are happening in active war zones. Some of the lowest in the safest and wealthiest.