Children are disappearing from the global population, and the math is staggering.

As a percentage of the world's population, children aged 0-14 are roughly half of what they were a generation ago. This isn't isolated to rich countries. Birth rates are collapsing everywhere.

The cause is structural. The fiat economy pushed both parents into the workforce. Housing, childcare, and education inflated beyond what a single income can support. A family of four on one salary went from standard to impossible in less than 50 years.

Then layer on the cultural rot. Gambling apps. Pornography. Social media designed to replace real connection with dopamine loops. A society that celebrates careerism and treats parenthood like a liability.

The result: an entire civilization quietly choosing extinction.

A sound money standard starts to fix this. When your labor gains purchasing power over time instead of losing it, having children stops being a financial death sentence. Families aren't a luxury under hard money. They're the default.

The fiat experiment didn't just debase the currency. It debased the birth rate.