The Salt of the Earth
When people usually have discussions on the birth rate it is usually framed through the lens of scarcity, "if so and so had their needs met they would surely have more children". The truth is however that the opposite is true, when closer to the edge of death, the more children tumble out of the womb. Surplus has been the goal of every economic system developed or naturally occuring with an eye towards human progress and development. To pursue one's labor and to take home something extra at the end of the day. This impulse is natural, everybody wants to get ahead in life. We have reached in Western and East Asian societies something of an equilibrium point, where the value of one's labor has exceeded that of providing an individual comfort, enough to live life without the edge of death. The enemy of the right is not socialism or communism more generally. It was and always has been the liberal world system. So...