[Svartalfiar]

Of the young people choosing not to have children, 35 percent are university-educated, and 33 percent are earning more than $2,000 a week.

A third of them are making six figures at such a young age? I find that hard to believe..

And of course, the main point of the article is that these 'kids' can't afford to have kids? You can easily afford kids on half of that level of income. It's just a matter of not overspending on all the other crap that people don't have the budgeting skills to cut out of their lives.

[Chicory]

The problem is that in order to cut back, they have to move somewhere where they can’t make enough to pay off their student loans.

College costs went up much more than other things over the past 40 or 50 years. It truly is a mess. Of course, we hear about the people who got $300k of student loans, which is absurd, but we were sold a bill of goods in the 1950s and 60s— that everyone should go to college. Everyone should have a white-collar job. Everyone should be above average.

Jobs became our central thing, our source of identity, and now we are paying for it.