[jxramos]

The culture I came from in 20th century America somehow established this significant period of prolonged adolescence as it’s been called. So I think there is some growing up to do society wise so that folks are equipped to be in optimal biological alignment at the appropriate age and not waste time dilly dallying with 20 years of unproductive living. I don’t think this was always so in past centuries and certainly not intrinsic to the 20s demographic.

Maybe our newfound prologued lifespan gave the illusion we could shift fertility out into the suboptimal band of years indefinitely. But if our economy is structured in a way that demands this shift I have to think it comes at a long term cost where we become too top heavy so to speak and have increasingly diminished returns on how much reproduction we can sustain at those biologically suboptimal band of years with whatever guarantees that may come from deferring reproduction to that better time that may never actually come.