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What if we just made people financially comfortable and secure again? The axis is "feed and breed" vs "fight or flight."

And stop making people move away from their families for a shot at financial security. Having family around is a key expedient to raising kids, just as it has been since the dawn of time. Stop making people leave their families for return-to-office nonsense.

Millennials have been through repeated periods of economic shock, and they can't afford houses. You don't need to invent something new to prevent the next generation from doing the same thing, you just need to make people feel secure so that self-actualization is permitted to happen.

I can't tell you how much I've heard millennials tell me about the grief of the inability to have children despite high-status jobs in hideously expensive cities. People didn't stop wanting children, people stopped being able to have children.

Of course, reality won't stop policymakers from trying to do the dead-end solutions of manipulating people into having children and taking away birth control. Those dead-end options must seem very appealing to policymakers when compared to empowering workers with genuine security.



"Don't have kids you can't afford." Now we're shocked when people makes less babies.


Don't wealthy people have fewer children?


The problem is millennials having fewer children, not wealthy people having fewer children.

Millennials are historically notable for having both fewer children and less wealth than prior generations at the same age.




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