cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/53484820
If you scroll to the bottom of the article, they post their sources, including studies published in peer reviewed journals. I’m sure most of us see this headline and go, “Duh,” but here we have hard data. Every time our billionaire and political overlords wring their hands about birthrates, the collective response from all of us should be, “fuck you, pay me, or kick rocks.”
The flip side is that assuming we have continued rise in productivity, there should be more to go around between less people. So we don’t need more wealth or resources, just better ways to distribute them. Wealth taxes are already being proposed in lots of places. UBI is also proposed in lots of places too. We need less billionaires, not forced childbirth.