/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53321074
>Nobody is ""choosing"" not to have kids.
Plenty of people are. It's much more easier to have kids now than say 100 years ago.
Hell the fucking state PAYS you to have kids now.
People just don't want to do it because it's a big responsibility.

>We are overworked to death
We work much shorter hours than our ancestors did. pic related

>This isn't what life is supposed to be like and you know it.
>muh naturalistic fallacy
Life isn't necessarily a good thing.

>>24875733
>The average working hours of a tenant farmer were 15 hours per week in the UK before machines.
This is a complete myth and based on bad data. If this were true, people in the third world and native tribes etc would have short working hours.
I just showed you data how the industrial revolution reduced working hours. Here's another worldwide.

>Umemployment was solved by shipping labour out west, leading to a rise in wages and business confidence.
What? What does this have to do with anything? Recessions back then were simply solved by cutting spending and leaving the market alone. There weren't massive shipments of people out west whenever there was a panic, this wouldn't have done anything anyway.

>A much larger percentage of the population being farmers meant that little had interaction with the wider economy.
What a load of bullshit, they sold their food to cities and traded with cities for tools and supplies. The amount of food per capita skyrocketed as well.
You're completely ignorant on the gilded age in america.
>With the rise of industrial capacity and the inability to ship more people out west, this created a time bomb that exploded in 1929.
HAHAHAHA What the fuck?
Is this your pathetic excuse as to why deflation and a gold standard worked extremely well from 1865-1913?
The depression was caused by artificial money expansion by the federal reserve.
>You're just wrong, I'm sorry.
Not an argument.
BTFO