I’m so tired of “people don’t want kids” being reported as “low fertility”.
Low fertility means “people wanting kids can’t have them”, not “people are choosing not to have them”.
The reality is the boomer and boomer+1 generations have made unending political choices that benefited them personally, and are now seeing that those choices are impacting their retirement plans, and realized their entire plan was dependent on having other tax payers look after them in a way they were unwilling to do when they were younger.
Now that they’re seeing that might not happen they’re again trying to make the predictable outcome of their choices be someone else’s problem.
Low fertility means “people wanting kids can’t have them”, not “people are choosing not to have them”.
The reality is the boomer and boomer+1 generations have made unending political choices that benefited them personally, and are now seeing that those choices are impacting their retirement plans, and realized their entire plan was dependent on having other tax payers look after them in a way they were unwilling to do when they were younger.
Now that they’re seeing that might not happen they’re again trying to make the predictable outcome of their choices be someone else’s problem.