The trouble is, the numbers just don’t support your hypothesis. Birth rates are falling in almost every country on the planet, however poor they are, however rich they are, however large student loans are.
This just isn’t the root of the issue. It’s pretty common knowledge that mostly the richer a country is the less babies it has.
So, maybe research what the actual problem is, before projecting your own views of society on this issue
I think you missed the point of my comment. I don't believe the author's premise at all, that population will decline. The population is still growing as it always has. Why would it stop now? The author makes no argument that it will and the data shows it hasn't. To lerp the declining growth rate derivative out a few decades is as ridiculous as the people who lerp the population count directly. This is Henny Penny stuff.
So instead I critique the author's views on society. It's not women having careers, prevalence of safe sex, or tinder usage to blame. Has anyone tried blaming the avocado toast yet?
This just isn’t the root of the issue. It’s pretty common knowledge that mostly the richer a country is the less babies it has.
So, maybe research what the actual problem is, before projecting your own views of society on this issue