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What if we just believed young people when they say it’s because of climate change and being broke?

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Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.

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Will Stancil would come here to yell that thats wrong, he has so many charts to prove it, people are wrong social .edis just makes them think everything's fucked, heres a chart showing why its an apps fault and the economy is great and heres a graph tha

Add in shittier healthcare, no right to paid maternity leave, skyrocketing housing, food & gas costs, massive student loan debt, and an absolute shitshow of regressive government policies and I understand entirely why my two oldest kids who turned 30 last year have zero interest in having kids.

i was being sarcastic - i dont think it's the phones, i think the drop in the birthrate is about affordability. We made it too expensive and burdensome. But i also think there is some truth in how smartphones have fragmented us, the more connected we are digitally, the less connected we are irl.

I’d shove my face into distraction of any kind if the prospects of the future are bleak. I’ve been through enough therapy to know what that’s about. It’s not entirely unhealthy. Also, should we be obsessed with higher birth rates? Seems possibly white-coded.

It absolutely is healthy. If you can’t even pay your own expenses and you’re worried about a quickly warming planet that people in power refuse to take seriously, not having kids is a responsible course of action.

Why are they so anxious? -Climate change and being broke! Why won’t they have kids? -Climate change and being broke! Why do they want to be influencers? -Climate change and being broke! Why do they think socialism is good? -Climate change and being broke! These kids are so selfish…

The essential building block of generational wealth in America for the past 200 years is owning real estate, having a home. That is out of reach for everyone except the wealthiest in our new feudalist economy. Also. Shit is unbelievably stupid right now.