Look at South Korea, because it's the preview. The fertility rate there fell to 0.72, the lowest on earth, and the consequences aren't theoretical: schools closing by the hundreds, rural towns offering cash to anyone who will move in, a military struggling to fill ranks, and an elderly population with no one to care for them. This is what a society looks like twenty years into mass childlessness. Americans discussing this as a lifestyle preference sound like people debating whether to pay the electric bill as a self-expression choice.
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