I mean, some cash is nice but the reason people don’t have kids is
a bleak future in the face of a collapsing ecosystem
late stage capitalism forcing people to work all day just to be able to afford existing
degrading childcare infrastructure amidst missing teachers, preschool educators, daycare workers, etc. And a general social climate hostile to raising children
and lastly of course the crippling loneliness epidemic, leaving many people (particularly men) unable to find partners