Mothers should be paid?

Mothers should be paid? The real reason birth rates are dropping. Yeah, mothers should be paid. I and and and when we started this we said mothers should be paid $2,400. We did the math based on like, you know, some other programs, but I think that idea made people feel so uncomfortable because they assume that you should be doing it for free. But what mothers are actually doing is like, there's a dollar figure to it. We decided way back a long time ago to not actually quantify that labor in our GDP. That was a mistake. Was there an actual decision not to? Yeah, there was an actual decision to do that. And a lot of friends like my friend Eve Rodsky are actually trying to shift that and put it back into the put it back into the GDP because if you ask a lot of women, they would say, I would love to stay home. And there's a cost at it. There's a reason why we have a declining birth rate, right? Because it is too damn expensive to have a child and people are opting out. And every country that has a declining birth rate, I mean our replacement rate is now like 1.6, that's bad for our economy. That's really bad for our economy. Yeah, and other nations you incentivize people. You be throwing money at people to have kids. Yeah, but there's plenty of conversation about the declining birth rate. The Manifesto wants to chat about it. Oh, they love it. They want to talk about it, but they don't have any solutions for it, which is kind of unusual. And my solution is, if you paid mothers, you'd figure it the fuck out. Exactly. And they would choose to do that, and that is not a bad thing.