Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The childless city is the final stop before the apocalypse. The young are watching a lot of kinds of systemic madness converge & be deconstructed, but still we are lost. Our parents chose to eat their young, and the metaphor became real. The gluttonous lineage ate its own tail. https://twitter.com/clayroutledge/status/1151831555163250688 …

This is a bit overwrought. There's plenty of people who want kids or who have kids. They moved to the suburbs.

US hit its lowest fertility rate ever last year and will do it again this year. The trend will continue. "No one ever had a child again" is not the lose condition and the fire-setting will start long before anything like that.

FWIW a big issue w/ low fertility in broken housing markets is that it's very tough to move far enough away to find affordability & still be close enough to keep your job + community. Preparing for kids is tricky & it's a terrible idea to force people to rebuild their lives first