It's too expensive to have kids.
If both parents work, then you pay for day care. Too expensive.
Healthcare is too expensive.
College is too expensive.
Team sports that turn into all-year travel leagues, dance class, etc. : too expensive.
The rent it too goshdarn high.
The consequences of monetizing every last aspect of existence = less existences.
I shall mod the Cummins diesel to burn used fryer oil from the chicken tendies.
Ride with me my DR brethren and sistren, free from the shackles binding us to the cruel escapades of our petro overlords!