200 years ago the average life expectancy was 30, no one was having children to "future proof" their life. Quality of life today is much higher than it was 200 years ago as well. While the cost of having children is undoubtedly going up, there are more factors in play than just the doom and gloom of the world. Even in pronatalist regions like Scandanavia, birth rates are falling. Education and advancements in contraception play a huge part in these declines, and are on the more positive side of the equation.
I agree that economic policy needs to adapt to keep a population growing and healthy, but as of right now I am finding it hard to see any signs of this(in the US at least).
> 200 years ago the average life expectancy was 30, no one was having children to "future proof" their life.
That's misleading because most of the reason life expectancy was so low back then was childhood deaths. If you made it to adulthood at all, you probably would live almost as long as people do today.
I agree that economic policy needs to adapt to keep a population growing and healthy, but as of right now I am finding it hard to see any signs of this(in the US at least).