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Their wordsAnd they don’t see a need for a plan B, in case their forecast fails.
Their wordsThey do not want to give such enemies the satisfaction of admitting they have a point.
Their wordsSimilarly, most recent discussions of how to promote fertility discuss how we might promote housing, inequality, schooling, day-care, etc., but few consider directly paying parents big amounts to have kids. As indirect approaches require us to guess what are the actual main obstacles to fertility, they are more likely to fail.