>>64815041> Having children and raising them is easier than ever,Wrong, incorrect, utterly out of touch with reality.
Before having kids was a thing that was done primarily through communities. Raising a kid could be done through a multitude of parents, grandparents, neighbors, etc. That support network is shot, now. Not to mention the financial network required to raise one. We are in a worse position to raise a family than during the Great Depression.
>>64855864>And how much money do you think people spent on their kids back then? Far, far, far less.
https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/raising-a-child-study/Raising a kid nowadays is nearly 20% more than it was even 40 years ago, and has gone up consistently in 20% increments since the 30's.
Kids, back in ye olden days, would work as early as 14 or 15. And 'Ye olden days' I'm referring to is around the 50's and 60's, meaning AFTER Child labor laws were implemented, kids generally made the money to afford their own entertainment, clothes, etc. This ended with everything becoming vastly more expensive along with the falling value of wages combined with inflation.
Maybe if you go far enough back, like 1885, you could find a similar economic situation in which to compare the cost of living nowadays to, but you know what people had over 100 years ago? Families. Big families who all shared an estate for generations.
To say it's easier than ever or that cheaper it's ever been is just fallacy, we do not have a world like we live in today where all of our productivity is monitored and compared against a global economy along with massive taxation and cost of living hikes to feed that global economy to compare to ever before in human history. We're in uncharted territory and we can see the effects of how living to make an imaginary line go up takes its toll on the humans who have to keep that line inflated on their backs.
