@JoeChip @n_dimension @Iwillyeah @Daojoan in the US it has been happening since 2007. During the last recession women decided it wasn’t worth having babies if we’re not going to get any paid time off and if we can’t buy a house.

And the birth rates never recovered, then Covid came along and women learned that the free babysitter isn’t always open. And if it’s closed and they can’t go to work there’s no social safety net for them.

So we have seized the means of producing human capital stock, and we have shut it down. The ROI is NOT WORTH IT and they can’t make women unsee how used and abused we have been.