I dont think thats where were headed, not entirely. Theres 2 groups of people having lots of kids: stupid poor people who cant wrap it up or just want extra gibs and conservative, religious family oriented people who want kids regardless of the consequences. Theres lots of smart people in this group, half the congregation of my church are engineers and they all have kids. This group will be the educated elite of the future.
...and here's why that's a good thing.
I dont disagree but most people feel entitled to live that lifestyle and will avoid having kids and take on debt to afford it.
Well, I would argue that is one of the core problems that people don't want to admit to: money has nothing to do with having kids. The fact is, the people lying about a lack of finances are just trying to hide the fact that they are hedonists who do not want to sacrifice their luxuries in order to have kids. I don't respect that viewpoint at all, but I could at least tolerate it if people were honest, but instead they pretend that they need welfare to provide those luxuries in order for them to have children. However, the "gibs me dats foh free right now" tactic works well with various flavors of neo-marxists, so the prevailing excuse is that the wealthiest peoples in the wealthiest nations "somehow" can't afford children without more gibs.
The real question is, how heritable/genetic is being family oriented? Natural selection is working hard at weeding hedonists out.
You said you need far more than this to "properly provide" for a family. I and every other Farmer with a family can confidently say that's bullshit. You ever notice they only tell white people you need a $500K house and three cars and travel sports and all this shit to be good parents? There's a reason for that.
That 70K single income has a habit of turning into 200k. Two incomes have a lot harder time growing. Of course how much of the cost of raising children comes from retarded face spending?
Bingo.
Do women realize how stupid and pathetic they look when they are pushing a dog around in a baby stroller?
I bolded the part where your argument breaks down.
"Whaaaat I can't give up my heckin'fancy restaurants and vacations to pay for diapers and clothes and doctor visits! Conspicious consumption is a virtue, and being thrifty for the sake of my children is too much to ask!" --people who shouldn't reproduce anyway.
You also need to remember how fucking stupid the typical American is. 60% of Americans read below a 6th grade level and 20% are functionally illiterate. Of course theyre poor, what kind of job can somebody who cant fucking read perform? Even getting a meme degree in general studies or communications and becoming a useless office drone who does nothing in the DMV or something would be a pretty serious accomplishment for them. As for the people in school youre talking about theyre not gonna be using 90% of the stuff theyre forced to learn anyway and they know it. I dont invest much effort into the fluff classes Im taking for my engineering degree either.
They built the damn thing. internet came from DARPAnet. The internet also created a massive productivity increase that let them take on more public debt. They would be able to resist the internet as much as bossmanjack could resist crack
They are.
Early internet was massive for academics, government, and businesses. Replacing fax machines with emails and hosting data at centralized servers was revolutionary for productivity. It just wasn't remotely fast enough to deliver entertainment for the masses and until DSL became mainstream it ate up your phone line. DSL was the real starting point for the internet ruining the world. Globohomo didn't need to care about the internet until the 2010's because, for all practical purposes, the average person would rather watch cable television than surf the web. Now, they surf netflix. The more things change the more they stay the same.
And it turned the normies into nerds and perverts.
Remember the 90s? The before times when nerd were despised and perverts got beatings?