[nadieyninguno1]

> I get that birth rates are also low in Europe so a good social safety net can't be all of the solution

I don’t understand this… you’ve immediately invalidated your own hypothesis and yet here we are…

Shifting social norms, the liberalization of society, the polar shift towards the self, has caused folks to pursue more personal, pleasurable ends than the good-pain that is raising a family.

You might shift the needle a fraction of a point with social spending here or there, but it is bailing the titanic with a bucket.

If anything, the economic policy might well be downstream of the social. Why the hell should “I” pay for “you” when it doesn’t benefit me. Or vice-versa…