[qball]

>Prospective parents are saying "fuck that shit" and simply choosing not to have children.

Or in other words, they've been priced out of the market.

If there will be no sociofinancial niche for their children to inhabit this is in fact the rational course of action. See also: South Korean current birth rates.

[NotMichaelBay]

> See also: South Korean current birth rates.

For anyone wondering, the South Korean birth rate is currently ~0.7: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?c...