The parents were Red hot chili Pepper fans

Gaylord Smith:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-to-raise-a-child-300000-us-state-by-state/

https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statistics

I used low numbers of ranges and rounded down.

The problem you describe as “temporary” implies that once your children are grown, they don’t have further children that will use more resources.

A worker in a growing population can somehow support 4 children and 2 parents (6 dependents) yet supporting only 2 parents and no children (2 dependents) is a problem?

So no, it’s not “temporary”. It’s a pyramid that eventually grows such that the foundation must crumble from the weight of everyone above.

An infant requires more constant care than a dying elderly. Parents are on rotation 24/7 for the first year. That’s more than elderly get in hospice.

Moneywise it’s $600k for a child. $400k from parents. $200k from the state for the free k-12 education.

Elderly on average have $200k in savings age 65-74 and spend $155k in medical costs their last 3 years.

Children are more expensive in money and direct labor.

Average 64-75 have $200k savings and spend $155k for last 3 years.

A child takes $600k. ($300k from parents. $100k college. $200k paid by state to cover the free k-12.)

Cost per child is $300k, $400k including college. The state (which means workers’ taxes) chip in an average of $17k / year for k-12 which is another $200k. That’s $600k per child, not including the free labor from the parents.

The average savings for someone 65-74 is $200k. End of life costs are $155k for the last 3 years.

Land isn’t unlimited. Physical resources aren’t unlimited. For example while a person can manufacture more batteries, with more people on the planet each battery will be more expensive for everyone because each is vying for the same limited resources that are used to make a battery.

I also wouldn’t say that low birthrate is caused by capitalism but by over population. No economic system can sustain unlimited growth. When too many are competing for too few resources, there is no time for families.

Senior citizens become people to take care of,

Children need more resources to raise than seniors take.

Except for population to grow it requires children which also don’t work, require more resources than elderly, and at the end of 20 years instead of freeing up resources (by dying like the elderly), continue to consume resources.

Music cli. Sex seems to be joke option.

You can’t show a no-God but I can show you spaghetti.

Checkmate.

I’m sure they tested it and found that enough customers would stay to make it profitable.

Consumers, especially Apple users, accept higher prices. It’s baffling to me but true.

In 2014, Netflix was $8/month. It’s now 12 years later and Netflix is $20/month.