People might want to skiddley-poo but you actually have to meet someone IRL outside of work to do it.

The Winter Olympics is being absolutely dominated by nations with… checks notes … cold winters and mountains.

Making money… So that they can buy a tv so they can spend their last two hours of awake time alone watching tv.

It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with community.

People aren’t having kids because communities have been hollowed out.

I think “invest in IRL social institutions and socially encourage and incentivise people to be positively involved in their IRL communities” and the babies will come soon enough.

But, instead the constant “your miserable life is for work” message doesn’t really make people want to skiddley-poo.

A drop in birth rates is generally seen as a sign of increasing prosperity in a population… Up to a point. After a certain line it’s a sign of decreasing financial confidence and insecurity.