It’s not about morality it’s about pragmatism. I don’t want to live in a dying country like Japan with suicide forests and old people committing crimes so they can go to jail and actually have human contact, I want to live in a young and vibrant and growing country.
A big part why people are so lonely in USA these days is because of birth rate collapse, people have less siblings and young people are heavily outnumbered by the old, which means that after college they are a minority wherever they go.
I understand that, but I also don't want to live in a country where people have children they can't afford to raise. Simply forcing people to have kids they don't want is going to create more problems. You have to address why people don't want kids in the first place.
Japan, even more so than the US, is an extremely work-centric country. People there live for work, rather than for their family. Work is their family. If you don't give people time with their actual families and children, why would they have any? People need to work less, and be financially secure enough to raise a family.
"I understand that, but I also don't want to live in a country where people have children they can't afford to raise."
It's a catch 22, because people can't afford to have kids if there isn't enough economic growth, and not enough optimism for the future. Why would you be optimistic about your country's future if it's going to look like a depopulated
geriatric wasteland? Of course people don't want to have kids under such circumstances!
This is why the low birth rate -> low economic growth feedback is so vicious. Smart countries - eg Indonesia - are currently attempting radical social policies to escape this catch 22.
It's not about economic growth, it's about being able to afford a house big enough to raise kids in, have time to raise them, and be able to give them a good education. Housing costs in particular are so ridiculously high that lots of young people simply can't afford to move out of their parents' place, and if they can, it's to a tiny apartment.
Economic growth isn't going to help them if all that money is going only to the rich, and if you divide society's wealth right, you can still make sure they have enough during low or no economic growth. The problem is in political economic decisions.
A big part why people are so lonely in USA these days is because of birth rate collapse, people have less siblings and young people are heavily outnumbered by the old, which means that after college they are a minority wherever they go.