It's also because in the US you have to pay thousands of dollars in medical bills for prenatal care and labour and delivery, even if nothing goes wrong. You also get 2 weeks maternity leave, if you're lucky. A lot of people literally cannot afford to *have* a baby, let alone raise a child.

Well sorry for not being baby making machines.

what kind of bullshit encourages people to increase population?! Population is the single most decisive factor in climate change

its depressing that theres even a 'replacement level'

I mean... A decline in population over a generation in any country is not such a bad thing

WTF? "Replacement level"?? How about just agree with letting human beings go one step beyond natural selection and choosing to make the change they wish to see? I can't believe that after all the bi**hing and complaining about population explosion over the past 50 years, that a reduction of population isn't celebrated. I guess there is always someone who has to complain.

I'm glad. Do we really need this many people? Wouldn't it be great to have employers tripping over their own feet to hire us?

Our hospital bill for our daughter who is now 9 was near $6000. My wife had a c-section after 19 hours of labor. Because she was in labor so long they kept my wife for two days and kept our daughter in the NICU for 3. So 1: we got a bill for $6K and 2: we had to abandon our new born for a whole day because we couldn't take her home with us until the 3 days were up. Hospitals know how to screw you on purpose.

God! We have way too many people on this planet, anway.

My grandchildren get to go back to daycare sometime soon. Parents about passed out when finding daycare. First child is over $900 per month and they have two. Don't know how anyone can handle those prices unless you're making six figures. Can't imagine trying to figure out daycare for people making minimum wage. Scary, going to be a lot of too young kids left by themselves.

People who work for Dan Price don’t have this problem.

Who in their right mind would bring another person into this mess we've made.

...and it's going to get so much better now!...

But that could be a good thing

This is a good thing. The world is crazy overpopulated as it is, way beyond its carrying capacity.

That's why developed countries all over the world need to constantly import both cheap and skilled labour, to keep the economy humming at a brisk, growing rate. The citizen population is unable to reproduce fast enough, and often expect higher pay. To understand why things are the way they are, one has to stop thinking from their own benefit's perspective, but from the state's/elite's benefit perspective. Why should a medical corp offer low cost care when they are allowed by the government of the day to wring max profits out of the masses? Same for landlords and financial institutions that lend money to the masses. Unfortunately, people are often treated like sheep, for the top wolves to feed upon.

Exactly!!! I’m so tired of the baby boomers screwing everything up! Frankly they don’t deserve grandchild and the ones that do have grandkids don’t care about them they just care about their wants and needs over their kids and grandkids. The baby boomers disregard for life is going to back fire as in no one to care for them when their old. I think it will be a good day they will get what they deserve.

...and it costs about $300,000 to raise a kid from birth to 18....THEN the college bills start... ha!

That's what happens when the government gets involved

Check YT channel Dream Prague. Then you will know what to do.

Or $7.25 an hour if you live in Oklahoma or other southern states.

It costs as much to go to the hospital to have a baby as a year of tuition in some community colleges.

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Evils of corporate, capitalist, lobbyists individuals and syndicates

How is this different from previous generations?

older people keep saying millennials are (fill in the blank). But the problem started with the older people and their bad decisions and lack of care for others.