You don't have kids because it's too expensive.

I don't have kids because I'm immature, irresponsible, would screw it up like everything else in my life, can't even take care of myself let alone another human, these genes aren't worth passing on, climate change will almost certainly never be taken as seriously as it should be, and it's not like there's anyone that would want to have my kids anyway.

We are not the same.

And also it's too expensive.

Who cares, let population decline for a generation or so. Maybe we will stop producing so much shit and scale back

Maybe you can solve the problem by letting immigrants in

After a century of telling people work, career, consumption and wealth are the most important thing in their life, business leaders are now shocked people will prioritize work, career, consumption and wealth over having many children.

Furthermore, after cutting programs for making child care, health care and education affordable, politicians are wondering why people don't bring as much children into the world that need a lot of health care, child care and education.

There was a time when a man with a highschool education could work a single full-time job to buy a house and support a stay at home partner and 2 children. Bring that back and you'll probably get more babies.

Government in the 1940s: "Here, we're demolishing black and rural neighborhoods to give returning veterans a cheap suburban housing stock. Also, we're doing big industrial jobs programs and ramping up our domestic manufacturing base."

Baby Boom Happens

Government in 2020s: "Here, we're larding you up with debt all through your twenties and turning every facet of life into a micro payment we can ratchet upwards on a whim."

Baby Bust Happens

Now you know why the corporate backers of Republicans want to use their platform to outlaw abortion and birth control.

GOP: "that's okay, just trap them to have children and make abortion illegal."

Remember JD Vance said that childless individuals "should not have as much of a voice."

Reminds me of the CEO who took a giant paycut so everyone in his company can earn 70k/yr minimum. Guess what some of his employees started doing. They started to have kids.

Where can I get some of that $1200 rent that isn’t in the middle of some hillbilly backwater?

Ignoring the elephant in the room called "Child Care." Often that's more expensive than housing.

jokes on billionaires, because of your shitty greed there wont be anyone left to buy your worthless junk

When did we go from “baby boom” to “this is the correct population level we should sustain”. A boom eventually gets a correction

Dang millennials! They must be the most powerful generation in... generations! Is there anything them avocado toasters can't ruin?

Republicans: the solution is fascism!

The baby boom generation is dying off and you're supposed to replace that?

Who writes these articles? Do they even think? Do they pause for one moment to think?

The few babies born in this generation will eventually be called “busters” from the “baby bust generation”

If I get rich I'm knocking up everyone.

Liberalism and capitalism making it hard to make families.