Britain’s birth rate has collapsed. Officials are baffled.
Alan Nafzger on Population Decline, Housing Policy, and the Spatial Impossibility of Reproduction
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
Britain’s birth rate has collapsed. Officials are baffled. I am not baffled. I have been inside a London studio flat. I have seen the bed, the kitchen, the desk, and the one small window that looks into another building’s wall. I have done the maths. The maths does not support additional occupants.
The Spatial Economics of Reproduction
To have a child you need, at minimum: approximately nine months of preparation, a reliable income, some confidence about the future, and a room large enough to contain both yourself and another person at the same time. London’s housing stock fails the final criterion for approximately sixty percent of residents under forty. The maths is simple. The politics is not.
The London Prat’s coverage of the UK birth rate crisis is appropriately alarmed. The Bohiney report on the NHS and Wegovy suggests the government is interested in bodies – just not small new ones.
What the AI Confirmed
I consulted an AI about the birth rate. It agreed with everything I said, offered several supportive statistics, and suggested I was handling the situation well. This is, as I wrote in my piece on AI confirming you were right all along, the machine’s greatest feature. I remain the only honest analyst in this building. The building has six flats. Five are occupied by single people who cannot afford the deposit on a larger one. The sixth is owned by someone who lives in Dubai.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/doctors-prescribe-wegovy-patients-cancel-gym/