"the world by and large wants there to be marriage and family."
I like that you speak you nonsense for the entire globe.

IT's a simple issue. The internet has lead to people spending all most all there free time at home, usually failing into echo chambers and never learning good social skills.
As people gain wealth, we don't need kids to survive as much. This is a good thing.

". They are legal minefields and financial minefields."
lol.

Not by chances. over 10,000 year ago humans started domesticating them. Part of the was human moving to an agriculture society.
They were useful tools for dealing with rodents.

AI is nothing like nicotine.

That just means our security was good. You little anecdote isn't actual data.

"Sounds like they're trying to make a ladies bike"
Wow, that's some 1pth century anti women on bike BS right there.

Ys, for a kid. an adult wants a pretend part because they can't get with the times is pathetic.

Imagine being so insecure you have to pretend to be using an older version of an engine? sad.

JFC, are you still trolling people with nonsense? Two decades? I guess being a person who barley got an AS, then ending up a TV Repair man makes you sad and you just take it out on others with your trolling and rage baiting. It's a really unhealthy way to try and make your self feel like you have value.

Our prosperity literally lifted the world up until about bush. When we started really feeling the impact of reaganomics.

The cost to ship calories of food is cheaper then ever, and that's due Americas investing around the globe.
20th century engineering an science benefitted billions of people. from vaccines, to ag.

So yes, we use to.
Then we stopped tacking properly, then conservative started attacking science, and now we are gutting are own farmers.
Thanks to conservatives.

I see what you did there.
I approve.

yes, but not who they were passed on to.

no, government money is correct.
The government dictates how it's spent, it's government money. Only the dimmest of the dim would think government money does come from a tax pool.
And saying tax payer money is too broad any conversation the requires details because which tax pool it comes from matters.

Yes, ethics are a thing. Your observation bias comes form the fact that unethical things are when makes the story.

NO one said that.

"There is no legal duty of responsibility to your shareholders beyond a) not lying to them"
Read the entire sentence next time.

And it's an accurate Or to be more specific:
In a normal for-profit corporation, especially under Delaware-style corporate law, directors, and officers generally have fiduciary duties to the corporation and its shareholders. That means they are supposed to act loyally, carefully, and in good faith for the corporation’s benefit, which usually means long-term shareholder value..

"Maximize shareholder value" is a late 20th century myth about corporations.
It is simple not true, and in fact many CEO have backed away from it.

Yes, lets invoke magic technology that counters every piece of actual evidence and data we have.
Than some solid thinking right there.