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If that were true, we would expect richer countries to have higher birth rates. Instead, we see roughly the opposite trend. The richer a country gets, typically, the lower the birth rate. You can't tell me that a teacher and a data entry clerk in Virginia are less economically capable of raising children than subsistence farmers in Malawi, no matter how high the rent in Virginia is.

If you want to see high income places with high birth rates, then you end up in very traditional/religious cultures, like Mormons and the Arab petro-states, where women face extremely high cultural pressure (if not force/violence) to be child-bearers.

Some books I enjoyed when I was a kid that didn't fit the trips above:

• The Contender
• The Tripod Series
• Call It Courage

Imma go out on a limb and say wanting someone to shove their cock up your ass is gay. Which is fine. You do you. But, like, it's gay.

I'd really like to see the evidence for this statement, since it really seems like this trend is just an extension of the phenomenon we see in poorer countries: when you give women education, opportunities, and birth control, fewer of them will have children. It stands to reason that the more education, the more opportunities available, and the more freely accessible birth control is, the fewer women will have children.

Me, but I have no dogs and don't play video games.

Tribalism. They'll find a way to think Trump is good, because that is a necessity for tribal membership for them.

Young people are struggling with mental health and relationships, but there are small shifts in beliefs and behaviors that could help.

Gotta disagree here. They always sell the "quick fix", but the reality is that changing your beliefs about the world is no small thing.

Their lack of representation in any zeitgeist I've encountered is kind of OP's point.

Sorry, I'm a kinky fuck, but I'm not that kinky

But muh violent revolution against the capitalists!!!

This is a great point, until you want to ask your hot date to come home with you.