The Network Effect Of People Having 0-1 Kids

A shift has started, and it's not because of what Daily Wire guys tell you, I.e. that women are selfish and prefer dogs. It's about money.

I got the screenshot from this podcast interview, which is with Anastasia Berg, who wrote this book about why people and do not have children. This is an interesting topic to me because I go through infertility, which sucks in its own right (but is probably largely my fault). If you’ve ever gone through infertility or miscarriage issues, you start to just, well … for lack of a better term, you start to question a lot of things that other people maybe don’t question. I wouldn’t say I have ever questioned “What is the actual point of kids and why do people do this?” in the grand scheme, as I do understand why people have kids. I myself have spent about $31,000 unsuccessfully trying to have a kid, and the lack of a kid can color my marriage on its worst days. So I get it. But it’s still a question I’ve had to ask, whereas someone in the “looked at her and got her pregnant” boat probably never had to even contemplate it. They set a reasonable number of kids and either hit it or went over it. Nice. Not my life script.

There’s a small moral panic about birth rates and fertility and all that, with some even tying the discussion to a decline in American Hope. I wouldn’t say the issue is “hope” but rather “affordability.” That said, I’m no scholar or oligarch, ya know? So my opinion, as a male with slow sperm, probably doesn’t mean much here.

Still, it’s helpful to break this moral panic into two parts. To start, we have: