What a better world you’re imagining.

This is an oversimplified explanation. I think its more complicated than this, there’s a rural urban divide as well and kids have historically been effective farm workers in some capacity. So if pre-industrial areas or agricultural communities utilize child labor, then kids become a very immediate return on investment.

This cost for kids changes in industrial societies where work is overseen by factory managers and kids get put into dangerous positions without oversight. The incentives become fucked and kids start getting crippled. Sending kids off to school starts to become a better return.

This is also evident in demographics where industrialization is immediately followed by declining birth rates.

If you gave parents money for kids doing well in school, it would lead to a lot of weird conflicts but it might offset the basic financial incentives around children.

Education is tied to delayed children not reduced children. Again, the birth rate drop precedes education.

The explanation I recall is that in agricultural communities, kids have historically been able to do a lot of the labor. This means the more kids you can have the more goats you can feed, etc.

In industrial environments, kids tend to not be able to do the labor. They lose fingers etc. So parents educate their kids in hopes it will increase job prospects. Each kid then costs more money and are not good investments.

Its just the calculus of child labor.

Protip: the low incomes are dependent on children. If you have a kid your income goes down

Landlords of course want 100% of everybody’s paychecks.

The US isn’t fully industrialized and we do kind of have some protected “pre-industrial lite” style religious communities like the Amish that distort population rates and previously used high immigration rates to sustain the economy until like sept 11th 2001.

Like the real problem is time and diversions. More diversions = less boredom = less fucking. More hours and jobs = less fucking. I’m pretty sure you can directly correlate advertising revenue with lower birth rates.

A monarchy is a family business. Anyone in the family can run it. Monarchies are inherently unstable when the monarchs die because of this.

There’s also a lot of stupid laws that prevent like a small daycare from operating in like a suburb area. Certain types of smaller businesses should be exempt from zoning and they’re all things that are super expensive.

Man who hates a group of people vs group of people.

We should skip to the final evolution of this show where its Man who hates a group of people vs that group of people but all of them have guns.

Christians can pick one of the following:

Option 1: If you name something after something in the bible it becomes the thing from the bible. See: “Kingdom of Israel”

Option 2: If you name something after something in the bible it is not the thing in the bible. See: any guy named “Jesus”

Either that guy name Jesus in the ICE concentration camp is actually the Jesus Christ or the Israel established in the 1948 is not the one in the bible.

Its why we call them “freedom fries” now

He also immediately promised new tariffs

Pretty sure you can make a full size skirt out of each leg and still have a pair of jorts leftover.

They’re really cool until they snag something.

Keeps talking about ‘pounds’ and ‘feet’ while complaining about how all the other americans are so dumb.

Found the actual fucking trump death panel.

They’re demanding ‘wages’ and ‘cigarettes’ while sexually harrassing the female scientists.

Everyone eventually just ends up at jorts.

Except the supreme court has said there needs to be a religious exemption to these things. So then it becomes voluntary. Then there’s some kind of cultural association attached to it (MAGA, for instance.)

Imo, other parents should be able to sue you/fine you if your kid gets the disease and your kid wasn’t vaccinated. Its a type of reckless behavior like speeding in a school zone or shitting on a sidewalk in front of a public toilet.

I think what people don’t realize is that roads are mostly designed by politicians and transit engineers just check to make sure the whole thing doesn’t collapse or sink when a car drives over it.

There are standards but 9/10 times the standards are written by the local council member whose background is in like real estate law or is the son of the local auto dealership owner.