Society is built on the fact that when you get old, there are workers to do things like run hospitals, grocery stores, and restaurants. At some point, the demand placed by the elderly on the young will be too great and society will collapse. A birth rate below 2 has catastrophic consequences.
Exponential decays mean that they won’t go extinct. But they will decline.
100 years ago they were having 10 kids each.
It is due to overwork and lack of decent housing that has changed.
Society is built on the fact that when you get old, there are workers to do things like run hospitals, grocery stores, and restaurants. At some point, the demand placed by the elderly on the young will be too great and society will collapse. A birth rate below 2 has catastrophic consequences.