Think about the last time you saw a tv show set in the current time where children are in a bunk bed in a single room. I can’t really think of any.

As to the decline in fertility that’s got many causes from access to birth control to pollution such as micro plastics directly reducing fertility. Negative impacts from capitalism play a role, but it isn’t so simple.

Not nearly the same level of extreme lows, but below replacement nonetheless

Childcare is over 10% of median income in a lot of counties: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/median-fami...

There is also a shortage of daycare places because it is a fairly low paying, high stress job.

Anecdotally I know some people who have quit their job because that is easier than arranging daycare.

The real problem here is that housing became financialized (like every aspect of our lives). People see their $300k house go up in value to $600k and think they've made money. But have they? You still need a place to live. If every house that cost $300k now costs $600k, you still only have one house unit of wealth. So what have you really gained?

One extension of this is you decide you need to own multiple properties. You need to become a landlord. For many, this is their retirement. But what is being a landlord? It's withholding a basic human need (ie shelter) for profit. it's choosing to let people die on the streets if it makes you money.

So this system only really benefits the truly wealthy to accumulate wealth by extracting wealth through rent at the threat of violence. Eviction is violence. Witholding shelter is violence.

Now this might be fine if the government provided a baseline for shelter through what is most commonly referred to as "social housing". Americans, in particular, who hear this think "projects" or "ghettoes" (ie Section 8 Housing) but look at a city like Vienna where ~60% (IIRC) of the housing is owned by the government [1].

But we don't have such a aystem in the US because it would reduce profits. It would reduce the extraction of wealth from workers. This is capitalism.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VJudBdYXY

Yes, China is a capitalist country. Putting "Communist" between "China" and "Party" (ie CCP) doesn't make it communist anymore than D standing for "Democratic" makes the DPRK (North Korea) a bastion of Democracy (or, for that matter, the German Democratic Republic aka GDR aka East Germany).

China has private companies, private property and an effective if not actual ban on labor organization (ie unions). It is in every way a capitalist country.

> All your "in the US" examples aren't capitalism, they're barely even free markets

"Free markets" are both a myth and orthogonal to capitalism. You mention both "free markets" and "too much regulation". That's neoliberalism (and, for the record, right wing).

Markets only function when there's a strong government to enforce them. Deregulation is merely a way to transfer wealth to the already wealthy, placing the costs for that on the government and the populace at large (eg any number of chemical spills, disasters, poisononing of water sources and so on).

Samsung Group is 20.3% of South Korean GDP, and that’s just one of the chaebol.