Low birth rates were the plan! And are an ongoing population management requires them!

https://www.popsci.com/science/world-end-overpopulation-doomsday-november-2026/

It's an PopSci link titled; "In 1960, scientists predicted the world would end on November 13, 2026
And yes, doomsday falls on Friday the 13th."

At least, that was the prediction made by University of Illinois physicist Heinz von Foerster in a highly cited Science paper published in 1960. Though talks of supposed doomsday have renewed in recent months thanks to hyperbolic anxieties over runaway, sentient artificial intelligence, von Foerster had a much different calamity in mind.

For more than a century, the prevailing fear, dating back to English economist Thomas Malthus who lived between 1766 to 1834, was of a booming population outrunning its food supply. Famine would ensue. But Von Foerster broke from that view. He assumed (correctly, as it turns out) that human ingenuity would keep the world mostly fed. The problem, he argued, was that the population would keep accelerating, toward “infinity.”

In a now infamous quote, von Foerster predicted, “Our great—great—grandchildren will not starve to death,” von Foerster and his co-authors wrote. “They will be squeezed to death.” Homo sapiens’ last gasping breath, they predicted, would peter out in the fall of 2026.

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All of it was planned; "The Gender War"...
The rise of the Incel...
Women being conditioned into believing there's a Gender Pay Gap and had the women not swore off "Motherhood" the promotion of "The Motherhood Penalty" was ready to go into every news article on the TV...
As well as "The Cost-of-Living Crisis" and Housing Crisis" to decimate would be parent's desire to raise kids in an uncertain economic environment...

And for what?

To stop the common person's base desires from consuming resources the "Elites" wanted for themselves.

And the solution to falling "Birth Rates"? Basically, band aid solutions to promote continuing falling birth rates because humans are no longer valuable in an AI age of "Super Intelligent AI"...

I'm glad I never had kids, if I had known what their possible future would have be like; I would have gotten snipped at 18, fapping be damned.