[rustcleaner]

>efforts by governments to incentive increased birthrates have little effect

We talking paying $24,000/child/year (equivalent in Socal) cash? Or some $4,000/child (once) pittance bonus plus a couple months extra time off at 60% pay? There isn't any gas left in the home-economy tank after a century of inflation and feminism, which is why they're globalizing labor to make up the shortfall! One cow breed is too expensive, fickle, and dangerously aggressive if pushed too hard, so it's in with a more cost effective labore... err I mean breed of cow.