That’s exactly why politicians are targeting women’s healthcare here in the US - they don’t want to pay more wages, but they also want the birth rate up and women staying at home raising babies. Teen pregnancies have reduced a lot, so they’re taking away sex education and contraception and abortion.
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Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 2 days ago
having more kids because hubby made good money is the real story here. Politicians keep mourning low birth rates (albeit some seem too happy to offset them with migration) and keep saying since this is a problem in all industrialized nations must be wealth causing it. Real story is, if wages so low the mother has to work fulltime, they are less likely to get children, if any. Basically we, the workers, get bred out of the DNA pool slowly.
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ironically, one of the factors of lowered birthrates in the US is because the working class has veen earning less and less since Reagan due to inflation and the rich fucks continually hoovering up all the increases in wealth for themselves.
But the billionaires don’t even want high birthrates. Many of them see the rest of us as parasites and want everyone but their personal serfs to die off.
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
hubby was 17 and bringing in six figures? Damn, competition out there is tough
SippyCup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
HVAC guys can bring in that much.
They work 6, 12 hour days to do it. But they can make pretty good money. They just don’t get to spend it.
They can also make next to nothing. Depending on unionization status and how busy their area is.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Housing booms lead to HVAC booms 20 years later. But in between, it’s a bit slow.
Varesti@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It was probably 5 figures when you needed 4 to buy a car and 5 to buy a house.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yep I’d at least have one kid if I could afford it. But as it stands 1 kid would make life pay check to pay check and hellish. Me and my wife both even have “decent” jobs. Jobs that 20 years ago would have paid enough for a family of 4 and a suburban house, but today not so much.