econ

Are Pro-Natalists the Real Malthusians?

Rothbardian_fanatic

> Austrians' use of the term human action is somewhat mistifying to me.

Austrians use the term *human action* to denote that everything starts from a choice that ***a*** human makes before taking any kind of action. It is not a *collective* choice and to be honest, it is also not a coerced decision. 

> When did anyone, pronatalist or otherwise, deny that the decision to have children is the result of deliberate action?

They didn’t ever say that the decision was not the result of deliberate action, they were saying that feeding more resources into the picture would change people’s choices.

> IMO the only point of disagreement is the extent to which the lack of childbearing is due to financial constraints vs a lack of demand for children

I think the article was pointing out that the *natalists* of all varieties were making mistakes in how to remedy the situation. This article says that lowering time preference would be a better method than pouring extra resources into families.