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Did you think ppl would ratio this any less now that the coffee kicked in? bsky.app/profile/genx...

Having the Orange Pedophile in Chief ruining the U.S. has affected the last TEN years at least.

Living Costs causes less children

It is theorized that sex feels good as a way to get a species to procreate. Apparently it doesn't feel good enough.

No

The cost of living is.

MAGA rose to prominence as a political force about a decade ago — around the same time birth rates became the concern of theobros, white supremacists, and chuds. Will a new working paper explore the connection (provocatively)? Am I doing this right?

No, smart phones aren't the reason.

No

I decided I would definitely not have children in summer 2015 because I had a job where I worked outside in a nature park I saw how the increasing heat from the climate crisis melted all the snow off Mt Hood, the air filled with forest fire smoke, and Cedar trees turned brown and died

Yeah, I'm sure it's smartphones. Can't be the endless string of wars, the drug epidemics, the cost of living crisis, or the general population knowing that the act of having children at this point serves little purpose beyond feeding the labor pool to further enrich the oligarchs. It's the phones.

A perfect example of @ianbetteridge.com's law in action

I’m sure it’s just coincidence that the cost of living has skyrocketed in that same timeframe…

Come on now.

We've had multiple recessions, a pandemic and congress allowed the child tax credit to expire (it's there now). But sure, the phones is what's keeping those kids from coming.

Both.

I asked Siri if anyone who was involved in reporting or publishing this article is smart enough to have kids, and it said “no.” So you might be right on a few rare cases.

Doom scrolling lack of jobs unaffordable housing, healthcare and cuts to food assistance kills the desire to procreate.

People being broke is more likely.

FFS. The insanely high cost of living, including hospital bills for having a kid, educating the kid, feeding/housing the kid, etc., etc. is what's wrong. That plus the maniacs in power worshipping guns, psycho religion, and all the other crap in their cult. The iPhone??? Get real. 🙄

Nope.

People can't afford kids. End of story.

"No" it's fucking POVERTY

But is the sex better?

I use the phone to check my bank account. I use my phone to check the news that tells me all about the price increases and how I can't afford didly squat especially a kid. So, yeah, we can definitely blame the phone. 🤔

Or, maybe, people just can’t afford lots of kids anymore. Kids are fucking expensive.

100% the millennial generation seeing the world and future for what it is and not wanting or being able to afford a child let alone multiple children. Then the generations behind us are going to have it worse.

the explanation is that the economy is trash and the hyper capitalist future is bleak, no one wants to bring kids into this lmao

I think children are causing people to have fewer children.

How about Facebook? Correlation does not equal causation.

Y’all reposting this again after you’ve already been ruthlessly mocked for it the first time?

Yep. The facts that raising a child is too expensive, that most people can't afford to buy a house, and that the cost of living is too expensive in general have absolutely nothing to do with low birth rates.

Sure, iphones are the cause. If by that you mean they are also a product of the tech/finance empire that has been migrating money from the bottom 99% to the top 1%, making everything more difficult and more expensive, not least of which is raising a child. But yeah, blame shiny pictures on a screen.

The economy recovered, did it?

No, being broke is causing people to have fewer children. No social programs is causing people to have fewer children. Women who pay their own bills & don't tolerate misogyny in their house are causing people to have fewer children. Men who don't see women as equals are causing people to have fewer

No. Man, fuck no! People are having fewer children because the cost of living is out of control. That’s the reason, and no study is going to convince me otherwise.

its not smartphones in general, it's iphones specifically

create a world thats not hostile to children and families and VOILA children

Women who have any complications during pregnancy are at risk of being maimed for life, dying, or being jailed because they had a miscarriage. Murder, usually by a partner, is a leading cause of death during pregnancy.

Did these geniuses also look at a cost-of-living graph for the same timeline? Conservative weirdos are obsessed with the birth rate and want to pin it on anything that isn’t women’s health, safety and economic conditions.

If a headline asks a question, chances are the answer is 'no.'

If I were having kids, I would have fewer of them. Not because of smartphones tho.

It's not the phone, it's social media.

Now do a study Lateral Epicondylitis since 2007. My elbow has never been the same.

The largest drop in birth rates is among teenage mothers. This is generally a good thing.

Love that they show a guy who was downright awful to his own children. Do they want us to have kids just to treat them like shit?

Nobody can afford food, housing, or medical expenses for themselves, let alone a child. But sure, smart phones are the fucking problem.

Oh, I thought it was caused by people working 50 hour weeks to pay rent and having no hope for the future, but it's those pesky iPhones again

Correlation does not equal causation.

paging @dailycorrelation.bsky.social

Surely it’s not the crazy cost and shit world of right now…

Team, this claim has been doing the rounds for about four weeks (minimum) and roundly debunked/mocked. Perhaps see if @pwgtennant.bsky.social would have a chat? bsky.app/profile/pwgt...

So will the smartphone corpos see the error of their ways and destroy their creation for the good of society, the good of the people? Ha.

Correlation ≠ Causation www.forbes.com/sites/erikaa...

Correlation is not causation.

You mean by showing girls what their futures could look like? Telling them how big of a pile of cash it takes and informing them that the federal minimum wage is still the same as it was when they were born? Then, yes.

The vast majority of these phone addicts do not need them. I don't get it, a PC or laptop is vastly superior in every way when compared to the tiny toy screens. I don't want our population to grow, it needs to shrink because we steal far more than our fair share of resources from future generations.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

Could it actually be due to high costs to raise children. Healthcare housing. Only the rich can afford to educate and ensure continual healthcare and stable housing. Phones? Spreading the word on costs faster?

Nintendo Wii debuted in the same year as the iPhone. Perhaps it's truly motion controls that have caused the declining birth rate.

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

It’s not the phone. It’s what we’re seeing in it. Collectively more bad than we ever knew. Plus, it helped white suprematists gather. And we’ve seen this disaster movie. Twice. So now the world has truly gone to hell. Would you want to raise children in hell?

if by “provocative” you mean “moronic”

Really? I find plenty of dates online, but none of us can afford children and are we are smart enough as a society now to understand that.

Why boink when you can text?

what a stupid ass question, look we found one!