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>Low birth rates may be exacerbated at the moment by the economy, but people's preference for their careers and the quality and availability of modern entertainment (why raise kids when you can travel, binge watch shows on Netflix, play video games, etc.) are more probable causes

Your comment fits your name, it is callous, lacking empathy and painfully out of touch. The idea that Netflix is the reason people aren't having kids in simply absurd...

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It is a fact that as men and women become more educated and start earning greater incomes, they have fewer offspring. This trend has been observed on every continent.

Greater incomes give one access to more of the finer things in life, which distracts from family planning. For better or worse.

>men and women become more educated and start earning greater incomes, they have fewer offspring

How can you get this close

>Greater incomes give one access to more of the finer things in life, which distracts from family planning

And still come to the wrong conclusion.

I promise you that high school dropouts with 5 kids are watching more netflix and playing more video games than a couple with graduate degrees from Stanford.

Difference between the dropout and Stanford graduate is level of self awareness, inhibition, disgust, ambitions.

More to do with women becoming more educated, not men and women.

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