Academia didn't make it financially impossible to have kids. Just what control do you think academia has over the market? Over the government?

"Raise house prices now or I'll send you to the principal's office!"

The gays didn't send house prices to the moon. Mexicans didn't send the jobs to China. No, it's the people with assets who pursued asset-pumping policy to great effect. You're right to be angry, but you're a fool to believe them when they point at universities as the source of the problem.

You seem to argue that academia of all places made having children being a chore. Not like, dunno, job security, housing and child care costs?

Whatever beef you got is what 'media' fed you selected smug academics to piss you off.

> At this point, we might be just fine. The academics won't be, but they were the ones telling everyone to wait on having kids in the first place. Demographic trickle down, biting the hand that feeds academia, is a big part of this story.

> At my college, birth control was as free as water. Teaching people to postpone marriage, children, for the sake of career, combined with record-high school debt... might be partly why academia finds themselves in this demographic decline. They told the next generation not to have kids, made it financially impossible to have kids, and lo and behold, there's less kids entering college now.

Hard to tell if this is just parody.

I will say that if feel that providing something equates to mandating it... I don't know how we're going to be able to have logical exchanges

I feel bad for the toxic world building you are committing yourself to. You should try not monolithizing groups of people.