Seriously, what is this fascination with taxing the productive to pay for the reproductive?
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Because only one of those groups contributes to civilization in a meaningful way. Make line go up, ala obsession with GDP, is not a viable long term strategy, let alone a civilizational imperative.
Well, an obsession with birthing gets you Sub-Saharan Africa.
That's a whole different problem and a very different demographic. Short term time preferences are the root problem in both cases. In one case only caring about affordability instead of biological viability, and in the other case they're barely more than animals who can't think an hour into the future.
There is not a single stable country that prioritizes births over productivity. It's a sign of a failed state.
Make line go up only ever leads to mass immigration and demographic replacement by barbarians.
Degeneracy is not a viable path.