The giant basket case countries

Needing immigration to make up for plummeting birth rates in the US will be a challenge in the current political climate.

Having kids is expensive and for many people of reproductive age there's the additional concern of bringing a child into a world in crisis. I believe that all these problems are technically solvable but are not politically palatable.

The simplest thing that we could do would be to subsidize childcare so that the biggest economic hurdle would be addressed. But again, that would be dismissed as socialism and would be a non-starter today.

> the additional concern of bringing a child into a world in crisis

I don't understand this view.

If you think it is net negative for a child to be born in this world then isn't it also net negative for you to continue in this world?

Yet people will continue living their own life while talking about how they don't think it's fair to have a child.

If your life is worth living despite the supposed world in crisis (as if there is any other kind) who are you to say somebody else's wouldn't be?

Your logic is unsound. The child does not exist, the person living does exist. Typical childfree folks like myself don't point at kids and say "ew, that kid shouldn't exist!". This is bias towards values that some don't align too.

> isn't it also net negative for you to continue in this world?

Careful here. Whether you intended to or not, my interpretation of what you said is "if you don't think it's right to bring a child into this world, then you should consider suicide".

> Yet people will continue living their own life while talking about how they don't think it's fair to have a child.

No, this is not what childfree folks say. We do not want kids, we do not care what you do.