Have been wanting to comment on this for some time but no idea where to do it without getting cancelled, I figured here might be one of the most appropriate (still possible of being cancelled but chances are lower).

How do you convince young people that they are, in fact, capable of rearing successful children?

I have to admit that I'm incompetent at it, and will never be. Most people I came across are incompetent themselves, despite claiming otherwise. It does not matter what their financial background is or whether they can afford it or not. The risk of anything going wrong is too high and most people do not have that kind of risk appetite.

kids will impede your career development, social life and are just so damn expensive at the end of the day.

This is logically true especially to me. For instance whenever something goes wrong (i.e. critical bug with Hive or VSC nodes or the apps that I work on here) that needs my immediate attention I will have to get to it ASAP. Or being able to afford to meet you at HiveFest without thinking too much about other stuff.

I personally believe there is no direct "fix" to this, those who are complaining about it should actually fix what is wrong in this world first. To me this can be simplified to 3 things: financial, healthcare and education systems. BTC (or HIVE or other decentralized altcoins that does not resemble a CBDC) needs to be adopted everywhere in the world. I'm disappointed that in the last 16 years of crypto's existence that this hasn't happen yet. The other two will be easier when we have something that cannot be arbitrarily inflated by a central entity.