>>451353ok to be honest i just looked at western statistics and the drop in fertility tracks the rise in exploitation with a small delay. It also kinda correlates with the increase of the service sector, financialisation
which my auto-correct wants to change to fictionalization, lol as well as alienation. The Fertility drop below replacement also coincides with the share of the public sector command economy decreasing and the private market economy share increasing, as well as decreasing public housing projects.
India still has a large peasant population that mostly lives off subsistence farming, so agricultural production is still fairly big and that has an impact on fertility. I'm assuming that Africa might have a similar thing going on, but i can't be bothered to look that up.
Do you have a different explanation for the developments in fertility? Keep in mind that it's not a choice. Biological indicators for reproductive health are declining in both sexes. People are less able to have children on a physiological level. Before you say it's environmental pollutants, that is not very likely because pollution has been going down in western countries while fertility has been dropping. People have talked a lot about plastic particles but it doesn't appear to have conclusive science to back it up.