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The money printer is warming back up, if you’ve been paying attention, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. The playbook has been obvious—first come rate cuts (happening now), then stop quantitative tightening (Powell confirmed this), then comes quantitative easing, money printing, probably early 2026.
Today, having a large family is a countercultural act. In the space of just a few generations, families abounding in children moved from being the norm to being the exception—an exception that will draw long looks from strangers at the grocery store. What was, not so long ago, an ordinary occurrence now marks out parents with more than two or three kids as cultural oddities.
In a somewhat puzzling trend, at the same time that affluence and standards of living have increased dramatically, people’s desire to reproduce seems to have decreased at just as rapid a pace. One might think that, as one of the richest societies in human history, the modern West would welcome lots of children with the confidence that there are plenty of resources to go around and with the desire to share our comfortable material existence with future generations. But that isn’t the course we’ve taken.
As Ross Douthat wrote in “The Decadent Society”: “Amid all of our society’s material plenty, one resource is conspicuously scarce. That resource is babies.”
Douthat went on to sketch what he calls the “thinning of the family tree,” the way that once vast familial structures have rapidly dwindled as each generation has decided to have fewer children than the previous one.
“Everywhere across the developed world, the decline of birthrates means that families have grown more attenuated: fewer and later marriages, fewer brothers and sisters and cousins, more people living for longer and longer stretches on their own,” Douthat wrote.
He calls this phenomenon, which is virtually unheard of in recorded human history, “postfamilialism.”
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