Millennials can’t afford to move out of Mom & Dad’s basement, get married, and have kids. Our society is profoundly sick, both figuratively and now literally.
That’s not the only reason. Overweight women have a harder time conceiving. More alarmingly, men’s sperm counts have been dropping for decades, and not by small amounts. I think it’s a greater threat to humanity than global warming, yet most people aren’t even aware of it.
For every one couple who wants to get pregnant but can’t due to weight or sperm count, I would wager there are dozens and dozens who cannot afford to take on a baby.
We have the same effects in Europe (even more pronounced than in the US) and Millenials here can absolutely afford to move out and generally do, so that seems to not be relevant.
Its working completely as intended. The stratification of class is a measure to maximize profit. The disconnect of markets from actual human wellbeing feeds into a perpetual profit loop that makes capitalists numbers bigger without actually being based on anything real.
If anything it is a mercy that todays kids will go childless because any children they would have will just be even more thoroughly screwed by economic mandates placed upon them by long dead barons of industry.
