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An interesting video:

Grey Tsunami: TOP 10 Most Rapidly Aging European Countries (The Pension Crisis Nobody Talks About)

ChatGPT: Women in relationships actually do have children. It is the inability to form a relationship that causes childlessness.

That's a sharp observation, and there's definitely truth to it.

In many cases, especially historically and still often today, being in a stable relationship (whether marriage or long-term partnership) is closely tied to having children. Relationships create the emotional, financial, and social environment where people feel more able—or are more expected—to have kids. So when someone struggles to form or sustain relationships, it naturally becomes harder to have children, even if they want to.

Of course, there are exceptions: some women (and men) have children without long-term partners, through casual relationships, donor conception, or adoption. But broadly, the ability to form and maintain a relationship has a huge impact on fertility outcomes.

So, the video is actually about 10 European countries rapidly going bankrupt on their gender conflicts. One funny element in the video is how they seem to consider the population to be some kind of milk cows of their government's treasury. That is actually a very European view.

A country does not "own" its population. These people are not their slaves. If these people emigrate to elsewhere -- usually because they are treated better over there or because the gender conflicts are less obnoxious over there -- then tough luck for their government's treasury. These people do not owe the government of their native country anything. In fact, these people do not owe anything to any government for that matter.

A government's treasury going bankrupt, is the problem of that government alone.

Amazing video! This is the story about the idea of independent European states and their economies becoming obsolete. The growth of economy moves abroad with migrating people, leaving poor and aging people behind. Time has come for profound changes in the EU, including the pension system.