I beg to differ.

https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/media_release/f...

> “Our analysis of mothers’ intentions to have a child, and an examination of reported births statistics, suggested that the baby bonus increased the fertility rate by 3.2 per cent”, said co-author of the study, Mark Wooden Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Melbourne Institute.

I meant it more in sense that when the human race (or rather 'civilization') starts to collapse that its easy to start propping up birth rates by making having children more and more attractive (financially-wise anyway) until you have the rate you want. The only problem is (and I'll probably get downvoted for this again) is that its mainly poor people that have lots of children. That's not good for society, so I'd rather incentive educated people to have more kids.

Uhm, citation needed?

I thought that it was well known that economic considerations such as career, daycare costs & even how many children does the car fit affect family size.

If some combination of benign incentives causes the human race to be smaller than 7B 100 years hence, that won't be a bad thing. I doubt anyone here is advocating for anything Swiftian.

Amusingly, this is one of those things that's been around for a while: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement http://www.vhemt.org

If humans actually died out, there wouldn't be any humans to lament it. Seems neutral to me.