What kind of mental gymnastics did you have to go through to get to that conclusion?

Good

or the BezosBots^TM kill you first.

It’s not economic, as much as people like to believe.

Even socially democratic utopias like Norway ,which have such massive sovereign funds that their citizenry don’t need to work a day in their lives, have a population birth crisis.

And while I obviously am not arguing against it, the biggest correlation with declining birth rates are education and women enfranchisement.

Honestly, a demographic implosion needs to happen with some generation. Better now, to reset capitalistic expectations of unsustainable growth then later when it’s compounded.

It really does, and disgraced anime for a long time and prevented it from becoming mainstream earlier