Progressives and leftists like Technocrats are in a position where we are expected to do something or propose policies for increasing the birth rate. My response is to ask why we would ever do that. In a class society, reproduction has a class character and the child born will also inevitably have a class character and different rights, comforts, securities, and opportunities that reflect the social class they were born into. Should we encourage the workers to have children in poverty who will grow up to work in the mines, or the elites who will have a new generation of children to be the new exploiting class?

Parenthood in the modern times has yielded poor results for both the parents and child, and depending on the social class of the parents they may even be arrested or have their children taken away from them by authorities. Child support is the first thing many men think of, and it can be devastating and limit their ability to leave an unhappy marriage. The traditional male role as being a sole provider can also end in coercion for a woman with a child. In a society with no economy or social support, do you want to have a child knowing the regime may suspend your driver’s license, revoke a passport, or go as far as throw you in jail for not having money? Do you want to be dependent on someone else who can be fired at any time for no reason, because the state has no labor rights or protections? Or perhaps you may end up in an even worse situation as a single parent with no support and a regime that will extort money from you or throw you in jail for forced labor. We truly live in an interesting time to be a parent, and I say that very generously.

Besides the issues for the parents, the children will be born into an extremely dystopian and broken society. Infrastructure and its quality is completely dependent on the social class and income of residents of an area. A child that is neurodivergent or has any kind of mental or physical disability will also be outcast and unable to achieve success independently on top of the other constraints put on them to prevent social mobility. Education is an argument for why social mobility is still alive and the poor can theoretically be successful, but debt and admission constraints also reinforce the compounding disadvantages that these individuals face. A society without education or opportunities quickly becomes a caste system where there is no incentive for social cohesion or compliance with the established systems. It’s a hopeless society where anyone of the wrong class is doomed to exploitation and poverty for their entire lifetime.

So forget about progressive or Technocratic policies to increase the birth rate, because the society these people have created is so bad that no rational person would ever choose to live in it. We’re not going to help the billionaires replenish their population of serfs. If we helped the regime have more children, they would simply exploit and neglect those children and continue the cycles of oppression that we are currently experiencing. If our political leaders cannot listen to experts, revolutionaries, or even general progressives to improve the conditions of society, the population should continue to decline until they have no population left to exploit.