Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore." video.
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Capitalism extracts more money and time than out of the workers, to the point that they are barely surviving, because it is a capitalist job to keep wages low and prices high. So, there is literally no excess income to raise children which are huge income sinks.
The example that you gave right at the beginning about housing already tells us that. House owners want kids when house prices increase while renters feel the opposite when rent increases. What this means is the house owner feels his capital has increased, while the renter feels his capital is being extracted away.
There is no mechanism in capitalist societies to correct for this, to put the money generated by the workers more in the hands of the workers to the point that they feel confident enough to have children. So the workers will never want to have children, and those that do find themselves trapped in a income to family expenditure death spiral.
It's really that simple. You want people to have children, you need to put more money in their hands in the form of better wage to profit ratio, and better price to wage ratio. They key is more capital in the hands of the people. This means a huge shift in the way the capital generated shift. We are not talking about billions, we are talking about trillions here. Which is why just giving a few billions here and there has no effect, it's a drop in the ocean.
But capital = power and there is no way capitalists will allow workers to have more capital.
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