[const_cast]

Bring in more young people via economic opportunity and immigration.

Making kids easier to have really only has two real options:

1. Go back down the development timeline of a nation and remove rights from women (bad).

2. Implement more social programs to incentivize children.

The reason we need to do 2 now and not in the past is we've developed. Women have rights now, and we need real reasons for them to have kids, not fake reasons like we had in the past.

[pyuser583]

Not having anyone to care for the old isn’t a reason?

[RestlessMind]

If everyone thinks that government will take care of them when they are old, they will prefer spending time on "self actualization" (whatever that means) instead of the boring dull work of raising kids.

[const_cast]

Boring, dull, expensive and risky. We need to incentivize people to do it, not just give them vaguely nationalistic reasons to do so.

Pretty much the only people holding up births in the US is young people who accidentally got banged up. That demographic has only been shrinking as access to contraceptives and education goes up.

We don’t want to remove privileges from people, we want to add on incentives. Currently, there’s a million and one incentives not to have kids.

[const_cast]

Not for the young people, no. Besides, countries like the US have made elder care a cash cow. We don’t actually want young people to care for the old, because we can’t bleed them dry that way.