This will launch a thousand awful headlines blaming phones and stirring up the creepy pronatalists. There are also a thousand factors at work: start with a fucked up economy and world.
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once
https://www.ft.com/content/fba35eca-df3a-4ad6-b42d-eb08eb7c9ad3
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Whatever you do, don't blame the billionaires who are stealing everyone's future.
@jeffjarvis There are generations of older folks, who benefitted from a stable, ever increasing post WWII order, that literally cannot fathom the cost challenges of younger folks on core, every day costs (housing, child care, higher education, medical, etc). Kids, famously, are not free.
Young people have been changing how they meet for ages, and smartphones just shifted computer use to our pockets. It did not make people who want to have kids want to have less kids, any more than AOL did.
@jeffjarvis
There are more than eight billions of us on this lonely rock, isn’t that enough?
It's almost as if these kind of articles are published just to stir shit up... the wrong kind from the wrong people.
