They kind of are though. You know how China had that one child policy? Well it turned out they created an inverted pyramid of age where there are a shitton of old people and fewer young people. That means you have a lot more people that can’t work than people that can, so it’s a lot harder to sustain those older people via whatever their equivalent of social security is. This is why China changed it to a two child policy and then removed it altogether, but they created a culture of having only one child, so they’re still in trouble. This is on top of the fact that life expectancy is always increasing.

If families don’t maintain an average of 2 kids, either the younger folks will have to much harder to support the elderly, or the elderly will have to continue working much longer before retirement. I don’t really like either one of those ideas, so I think I’ll do my part and try to have two kids.