It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore.

In this video, we explore the global decline in fertility rates and its potential implications. We’ll look at key factors contributing to the trend and discuss what this might mean for future generations.

Also sorry the facecam quality is a lil low! My device recording got corrupted so had to use a backup from the stream

Corrections:
- I used a photo of the wrong Paul Ehrlich (a different scientist, with the same name).

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[Fads]

Thanks for watching! This is edited from a stream I did last Friday.

The streams give us a chance to go into a bit more detail compared to the video, and cover a couple more angles that I cut out from the video. Plus I can hear directly from you guys!

I stream Fridays @ 7.15 EST so feel free to come along :)

[TatersUnited]

“Governments aren’t trying to create self actualized, happy, positive individuals. They’re trying to create meat for the grinder.” Damn.

[Icedanon]

Society asking why im not having kids is like my boss asking me why im so poor.

[mariatamburro]

Your last quote was perfect. "governments aren't trying to create self-actualized happy positive individuals they're trying to create meat for the grinder." This sums up SO many of the "crisis" we have.

[cadenwinther]

“They’re not trying to create healthy self actualized individuals, they’re trying to create meat for the grinder” is the realest thing I’ve ever heard

[lgdsyugdsfhj]

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
- Voltaire

[HealyHQ]

I wouldn't want to bring kids into a situation I don't even want to be in myself.

[RandoSando.]

You said it perfectly. There is no fertility crisis. Only a worker crisis. They want to fix it by trying to make people have kids instead of increasing wages, putting a price ceiling on necessities and groceries, or any other solution

[happilyjaded]

"Under 19" women are not thinking about having children....good. They are children themselves.

[noblemily]

As a Taiwanese woman who doesn’t have kids, I would like to tell you it’s mainly because the working environment here is simply bad.
Children are forced to enter a very competitive education system as early as possible, and I don’t want anybody to experience the same struggle as I did.

[kepinpin]

I'm tired of working to make somebody else rich and I don't want my children to be condemned to the same fate

[erikainthesky]

i cant even afford a place to live... how could i possibly afford a child??

[uranus_crunch_cake]

Im in my late 30s and i doubt that social security will be there for me when i retire. I'll be working until i die. I can only imagine what it will be like for any potential kids of mine. No thank you.

[Evil-drbn]

"They're not trying to create self-actualized individuals. They're trying to create meat for the grinder." Agreed.

[catheirs]

Born a peasant, went to college, got a 4-year degree, worked 3 jobs simultaneously for years, still a peasant, realized I’m a forever-poor corporate slave, life is too hard, I love my unborn child too much to bring them into this world where they too will be a peasant corporate slave. Life is awful when you’re poor, enslaved and exploited, gee I wonder why no one wants to bring children into this mess.

[shiningdragon]

No one can afford kids, can barely afford taking care of ourselves.

[francisebbecke]

Animals in captivity don't breed as much either.

[tylerhicks]

I heard another commenter on a different video describe it as the GenZ and Millennials who grew up aware that they were financial and lifestyle burdens on their parents are now the people who would be having kids, but after being raised by people who spent all their time working and resentful they had no free tine outside of work and family, we dont want to perpetuate the cycle

[tddzyx]

Reminder: Needing someone to pay for your retirement is never a valid reason to have more children.

[rxurelp]

I'm not producing the next generation of laborers for stockholders just because they want me to.