Why would anyone have children given what's coming. Inflation is through the roof, buying a house is not accessible to a large chunk of the population, wages are stagnant, right wing populism is on the rise, the climate is going down the shitter.
It's not a great future environment for children, I know I won't have any.

Good thing anti-immigration politics is becoming so popular lately in many countries, that will surely help with this issue /s

This is only a problem because people aren't having children. And in some ways, that's a good thing. Until we find more sustainable ways to exist, more children are not good for the environment.

If governments wanted to encourage people having children, they'd have to do something to counteract the world turning into a capitalist-dystopian hell-scape. So far it looks like governments are doing the opposite. They act like it's still the 50s with 'The rising tide lifts all boats' and 'trickle-down economics' still being things people believe in. Nobody does, though.

How is anyone supposed to trust in the future, when it's clear that the world is a rich people's playground, where a few hundred-thousand people get to self-actualise in the most insane ways, while the remaining ~7.9 billion are wage-slaves having to live through shocking daily indignities at the behest of the ruling class.

Not sure how we'd fix it though. Workers have no interest in acting in unison. While rich people do (and are much easier to coordinate). Eventually, the ruling class will just use AI-powered police / military to ensure nobody challenges the status quo. So it feels a bit like the game is lost.

Work, consume, breed, die, repeat.

It’s so enticing, why don’t people want to do it anymore??

That's not news, everyone has known for decades

So labour shortages, which means capitalist have to pay higher wages. Inflate public budgets are not a problem, with the richest paying almost no taxes at all.

Oh man the pain.

Life is so good nobody wants to have kids obviously!

Kinda like nobody wanta to work!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

These are some of the disquieting findings from a new report on demographic change released by the European Commission on Wednesday, which paints an alarming picture of the profound societal and economic transformation triggered by a shrinking workforce.

The drastic shift in the demographic pyramid will upend the labour market, with widespread shortages that could inhibit growth, productivity and innovation rates, and therefore accelerate loss of competitiveness vis-à-vis other major economies.

A dwindling workforce will inevitably reduce revenue for state coffers while piling additional pressure on public budgets to spend more on healthcare and pensions, an explosive combination that could divert attention away from the much-needed investments in renewable energy and cutting-edge technologies.

Before the damage becomes irreversible, the Commission recommends member states take decisive action, such as closing the gender pay gap, improving work-life balance, offering tax benefits, reducing childcare costs, and making it easier for young people to access quality jobs and affordable housing earlier in their adult lives.

Brussels also says it is "crucial to empower older workers to remain active for longer" through upskilling programmes and flexible working hours, and urges businesses to overcome "preconceived notions and stereotypes" about the elderly.

The bloc, which is in the midst of a hard-fought push to reform its asylum policy, received last year 3 million migrant workers via legal pathways compared to 300,000 who arrived through irregular means.

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If there was easy access to assisted suicide it could help a bit. There is a whole lot of problems with this topic and working out an acceptably ethic solution is hard. But some people would use it. And I'm very much one such person. Being disabled sucks.

With AI replacing most jobs and with human resources being less and less valuable, is this a problem or a solution?

Oh no! Some arch villain has spilt fast aging potion in the water! What to do.