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Tories' Choices, Not Millennials: Britain's Population Collapse Cause (stop-population-decline.ghost.io)

submitted 1 year ago by tintory@lemm.ee to c/politics@beehaw.org

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"If the chattering classes of Europe need a cautionary tale, they can look further afield than Japan. Michael Deacon's recent column casts a dire portrait using a simple formula: fewer babies in Japan equals societal collapse, and by that logic, Britain's increasing childlessness threatens to do the same. But this logic is flawed at its core, and to assume British millennials' choices stem from mere selfishness is to misunderstand the situation entirely."

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[–] TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I'm confused here...

The "horse and sparrow" types have been telling us to not spend money unnecessarily. This will lead to being able to afford more bootstraps.

Soon we realize that children are crazy expensive. Doubly so here in Freedom-land where you're lucky if you get more than a few weeks off of work and a $75k hospital bill. Which your insurance company will fight to the bitter end.

So we decide to be responsible and postpone family plans until we can afford it without going into debt for the rest of our lives.

And now there's a moral panic about that?!

Pick one! Give up your monthly mega-yacht and allow the breeder class to get caught up financially, or stop griping about millennials postponing having children.