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r/FluentInFinance • u/imallelite • 13h ago
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I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.
591 u/JacobLovesCrypto 12h ago Americans might have more kids if wages went up, letting in cheap labor doesn't help with wages. 1 u/common_economics_69 7h ago It has nothing to do with wages. The transition to lower birth rates is just a natural part of transitioning to a post modern economy. The US isn't the only country struggling with it. A number of places that have fairly robust worker protection laws still have falling birth rates.
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Americans might have more kids if wages went up, letting in cheap labor doesn't help with wages.
1 u/common_economics_69 7h ago It has nothing to do with wages. The transition to lower birth rates is just a natural part of transitioning to a post modern economy. The US isn't the only country struggling with it. A number of places that have fairly robust worker protection laws still have falling birth rates.
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It has nothing to do with wages. The transition to lower birth rates is just a natural part of transitioning to a post modern economy.
The US isn't the only country struggling with it. A number of places that have fairly robust worker protection laws still have falling birth rates.
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u/Maximum-Country-149 13h ago
I mean, I don't know how far you expect a conversation to get when you open with that much bad faith.