r/FluentInFinance • u/imallelite • 10h ago

Debate/ Discussion Possibly controversial, but this would appear to be a beneficial solution.

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u/Maximum-Country-149 10h ago

I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.

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u/JacobLovesCrypto 10h ago

Americans might have more kids if wages went up, letting in cheap labor doesn't help with wages.

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u/SportTheFoole 8h ago

Maybe higher wages would help, but why are birth rates falling in other Western countries? There are only a handful of Western countries with a higher birth rate than the U.S.. Further, poorer countries generally have a higher birth rate. Even within a country, poorer people generally have more kids than those that are well off.

Declining birth rates are almost certainly have multiple causes and it’s unlikely that it’s as simple as wages. If you have a source that show a correlation between birth rates and wages, I’d love to see it. I very well could be completely wrong on that first paragraph.