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When we grew up wondering how we would address overpopulation, impoverishment wasn’t something we had in mind.

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If it gets bad enough, birth rates will go up. Developed countries typically have lower birth rates than undeveloped countries.

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Developed countries typically have lower birth rates than undeveloped countries.

That is more to do with education and women’s liberation (including contraception), than finances. Which I suspect is still the predominant reason that birth rates are dropping, with finances just a secondary reason.

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but is that related to infrastructure or wages?

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They lack a social safety net for retirees, so children take care of them in their old age. Children are also a source of wage labor. We’re already softening up on child labor here in the USA to address the labor “shortage”.

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it’s by design

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Seems like a side effect of unchecked greed instead. If it were properly designed people would be able to afford enough bread and circuses to stay complacent

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