Interesting post on the baby boom by @arctotherium42 that I would highly recommend. aporiamagazine.com/p/the-baby-boom
He suggests that baby boom was ended because of a concerted effort to artificially raise women's status, because women generally want a higher status man than themselves:
A good example of this is how the stimulus money was given out under Obama. Men are more likely to work in cyclical industries, while women more in recession proof ones so men lost more jobs. When Obama proposed a plan for them to rebuild infrastructure, feminists complained:
A group of "feminist economists" put together a petition to make it more favorable to women:
It was estimated that 42% of the jobs were likely to go to women, when they only lost 20% of the jobs to begin with:
In the end less money went to building things, and more to social services, and there was an unprecedented employment gap between men and women:
Source: web.archive.org/web/2009062503…
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