Y'all are literally complaining that not enough white children aged 15 to 17 are getting pregnant.

Do you even hear yourselves?

You know y'all are saying this out loud right? And that other people can hear you?

I'm running out of ways to tell you that this is a good thing.

I don't know how much you know about anatomy or biology, or how long 9 months is... but the things required for a 15 year old to give birth, are not good.

Less of that is a good thing.

👴🏻But Mekka! Without young people, our economy will collapse! We need fresh meat! I mean workers! To serve me! Always serving me!

🧔🏿‍♂️Young workers are smuggling themselves into the country, just to serve you. Will you let them?

👴🏻No! Illegal!

🤦🏿‍♂️
NYC has a 400K person blue collar worker shortage🤯

NYC has 10K+ legal migrants that want to work, but work permits are delayed.

If you were NYC mayor, would you:
a) Issue temporary work permits, and not enforce fed law?👍🏿

b) Make the migrants homeless?🤡

👴🏻But growing our population through immigration ain't natural! We should grow it like we've always grown it: through good old American procreation!

🧔🏿‍♂️A) Don't procreate with children. Not debating this.

🧔🏿‍♂️B) No, that's not how the US population grew

Shout out to all my fellow Americans that still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, and that the US population got to 350 million mostly white people, in only 400 years, due to the "hard work" of a few boatloads of frisky settlers.
🐇🐇💘

But let's talk about replacing the births that girls aren't having as much anymore, with births that women can have.

* Provide affordable housing
* Provide reproductive rights, education, and care
* Provide affordable healthcare and medical care
* Provide affordable childcare
* Provide women equal access to higher education and employment, and equal compensation

Then *women* that *want* to have kids *choose* to have kids.

@mekkaokereke affordable childcare requires paid parental leave:

1. Daycares compete with unpaid labor of parents (mostly women). Most staff (also women) are paid poverty wages.
2. Infant care is a loss leader. Staff/child ratios make profits impossible - business makes up the loss in the 3/preK years.

Give parents a year to take care of their kids, and running a daycare becomes a more reasonable enterprise.

@JoBlakely @Oaktag @adambkaplan

Yup to both.

Women don't "have babies." Parents "have children." I was very vocal about taking my full paternal leave.

And a weird thing about it being hard for women to re-enter the workforce. That's also not quite true. It's much easier for women to re-enter the workforce than people make it seem. What's hard, is for men to accept women who are reentering the workforce.

It's a subtle but critically important difference.

@JoBlakely @Oaktag @adambkaplan

Consider a woman that wrote C++ for Microsoft for 10 years, then left the workforce for 5 years to have two kids, and is now trying to come back into the workforce to write C++ again.

The world of software engineering hasn't changed so much since 2019 that she doesn't know what she's doing anymore. That whole concept is nonsensical.

But a hiring manager asking silly questions like, "Explain this gap in your resume," might not be satisfied with her answer.

@JoBlakely @Oaktag @adambkaplan

Me, giving hiring secrets away...

If you were a highly rated senior staff engineer at Microsoft, and you have a 10 year history of great work, I don't care what you've been doing for the past 5 years.🤷🏿‍♂️

Maybe you had kids. Maybe the pandemic required you to care for an elder parent. Maybe you tried your hand at a start-up. Maybe you opened a sandwich shop. Maybe you'd burned out and went backpacking around the world.

It. Doesn't. Matter.

None of my business.