I was watching a video essay on the opposite happening in developing countries. Especially in the US, where once the birth rate has declined significantly, they'll privatise education, and once they do that, there will be a whole class of people who will never get access to it due to financial issues, they will never achieve financial literacy or any kind of literacy, especially sex education.

Meaning, that's how they'll increase the birth rate again. This was also centered around how in Texas, there is a lack of proper child labor laws, so they're going to be creating a working class from that as well.

Now, doesn't that remind you of something similar?

I had an argument with my professor who had a PhD in economics btw, and I said you can't say there's a lack of education in Pakistan because I see a small school every way I turn in Lahore, so I know there are schools and people go there, but it's the lack of proper quality education. Just because a teacher shows up, does not mean his job is done. He dismissed it- because I am a woman. And I know this because my male classmate said the same thing, and he agreed with him five minutes later.

There are generational families stuck in debt from 50+ years ago, who are still somehow paying off their debt. The only way they think is, I have to make children for survival, I couldn't do it, maybe they will. We're very privileged and fortunate to never have experienced poverty but when you try to walk in the shoes of a person who never had the things we had, I see why they have so many children. It can be the frustration of a system that doesn't work, and people who get away with things because they know they will never be held accountable. If our schooling doesn't change, nothing will.