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The popularity of "The Pill" caused the population decrease we see starting during Gen X's timeframe and continuing on a bit. It kept mothers working jobs instead of raising larger families like in the Boomer era.

Raison d'État · 5w

Now add "workers share of GDP" to that graph. You'll find the lines track quite closely. As David Ricardo observed in the late 1700s, typically women will not settle down and have children until they have the same level of financial security their parents had at the same life-stage. The Pill just...