This is because your original claim is broad. Intent aside you have correlated higher birthrates with higher hope- this is an assumption “they believe they have a chance to live life as good as ours.” 1. Do they believe this? 2. Who’s they? 3. Finland, Denmark, and Iceland rank high on happiness.

1. Yes I do. 2. "They" are the people who live elsewhere (i know it's a great simplification!). 3. It's possible to be happy and concerned about the future.

We will not solve the issue of the declining population on social media. The main point of my original post, was that any single state can't do much to reverse it. Thank you for pressing me :) I'd love to talk to you in person. i'm sorry, I am not be able to express myself clearly enough here.

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Yes it is possible to be happy while life is hard. It’s something I share a lot. My point, tho: People don’t see the US like US people do. Some see it as it is sold and some don’t. And there are people in the US who suffer a whole lot, who know how to be happy even when they starve. 1/7

Birth rates and happiness don’t cause each other. To assume wanting a kid is a sign of happiness assumes a lot. To assume otherwise is also a lot. Assumptions over facts leaves room for errors that can harm. Like those who build churches to solve hunger. An action based on a belief.

I know hopeful people, who choose to not have kids. I know hopeless people, who’s religion encourages them to have kids. I myself think people are too focused on birth rates when it truly isn’t an issue, esp. since racists fall on both ends of that topic.

When my grandparents had their kids, they didn’t have the number they did out of hope. They were in an incredibly Catholic country and my grandma had kids easily. When my mom came here, it was to escape war that the US enabled through a guise of aiding.

Propaganda, that everyone wants the US to help them, convinced the people of the US to not hold Reagan accountable for IranContra. This cruel action has occured a lot. There are people hopeful in the US. There are people hopeful in Nicaragua. And there are hopeless people in both countries.

Because every body is as varied and different and similar as each other. That the issues we have in the US, a lot of people have in their home countries. Mean sad cynical people exist and, like Musk, they’ll have kids. Hopeful overworked people exist and they’ll choose to not have kids.