The Importance of Radical Life Extension Technology

There are strong arguments to think that there are no nearby technological breakthroughs that are going to radically change the fertility dynamic. The reason people don't have kids in their 40s is because you're trying to play catch with your kid in your 50s and 60s, which is just harder. Growing babies in Vats? Will that increase fertility? No, well not. There's this literature on motherhood wage penalties. This is one of the biggest costs of fertility. Raising a child more than a half the cost of raising a child is the opportunity cost of lost wages for a mother on average.