Let's say you're an impressionable high school age girl pondering what to do with your life. Your morbidly obese, purple-haired English teacher with three cats said it was super important to go to college and get a career. Meanwhile, the influencers you admire on TikTok and Instagram assault you with the messages that a girl s 20s are best spent finding herself and having fun while also trying to get the bag. Why is all this important? Well, basically, you were told repeatedly growing up that skipping right to being a wife and mother was somehow letting down the sisterhood, betraying them for the patriarchy. You would be a total piece of garbage if you didn t reach your full potential, whatever that means. You'd be nothing but a breeding cow and a worthless domestic servant in a world full of evil men. A shining career in financial independence was the real secret to happiness. Marriage and children would happen somewhere down the line.
00:00:29.240Well, basically, you were told repeatedly growing up that skipping right to being a wife and a mother was somehow letting down the sisterhood, betraying them for the patriarchy.0.99
00:00:41.020You would be a total piece of garbage if you didn't reach your full potential, whatever that means.1.00
00:00:46.160You would be nothing but a breeding cow and a worthless domestic servant in a world full of evil men.1.00
00:00:52.560A shining career in financial independence was the real secret to happiness.0.83
00:00:56.560Marriage and children would happen somewhere down the line.
00:11:09.900The actual lab work, invasive egg retrieval,
00:11:12.980fertilization and developing the embryo will cost you an additional $20,000. If you want to freeze
00:11:19.420those eggs, that'll cost $6,000 along with a $2,000 annual fee for storage. While you spend a few years
00:11:26.340running out that body count and living your best life, not counting the storage fees, that's a
00:11:31.380total of $27,000 to $33,000 per coin flip if you're 35 or if you're around 40, it's an absurd
00:11:39.560amount of money that will almost certainly go to waste. With failure rates spanning 50 to 97%,
00:11:45.820the average woman must pay for multiple tries at IVF, going ever more deeply into debt without1.00
00:11:52.200possibly anything to show for it at the end. There's a reason why only 2% of U.S. mothers1.00
00:11:58.520conceive their kids via this expensive and unreliable process, and most of that 2% resort
00:12:05.360to IVF because they've got tragic medical issues, not because they were a delusional, selfish,1.00
00:12:11.720harpy girl bossing and p***y tasting until it was almost too late. But it doesn't stop there.1.00
00:12:18.100Common additional fees include $10,000 per roll of the dice for genetic testing to make sure your kid
00:12:23.520isn't going to be born with Down syndrome or some other chromosomal issue.
00:12:27.640and there's roughly $1,500 in additional fees for advanced lab techniques should your half
00:12:35.760rotten eggs prove stubborn and that speaks nothing of the cost of donor eggs or surrogates should you
00:12:41.340go that route and if you're still going to be picky about donor sperm and if you're still single
00:12:45.880at 35 I suspect you will be that can cost you an additional several thousand dollars the absurd
00:12:53.280costs of IVF are why medical insurance companies hate providing coverage for it. So much so that
00:12:58.900the government has resorted to forcing insurers to cover it, though they've only successfully
00:13:04.360managed to do this in 15 states. Even then, insurers wiggle as best as they can. Some will
00:13:10.600only cover initial fertility exams, some only cover a limited number of attempts, and you'll
00:13:16.040be paying a high premium and still be facing many out-of-pocket costs. Bottom line, when insurance
00:13:22.220salesmen of all people think something's a scam you know there's something seriously fishy about0.96
00:13:28.320IVF and I'm not just talking about the old beat up worn out vaginas ultimately medical insurers0.99
00:13:35.480just do not think they should be subsidizing women's terrible planning selfish behavior and0.99
00:13:40.720poor life decisions in countries where the taxpayers do subsidize women's poor life decisions0.83
00:13:46.060to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year it barely moves the needle for instance
00:13:51.580In Australia, the government spends about $500 million per year for a much smaller population to cover roughly half of IVF, with women paying roughly $15K for a single cycle rather than $30K, all for 5% of Australian mothers who fuck around far longer and start having kids far later than American women to have successful IVF, and just so Australia can have a fertility rate in the toilet at 1.48 births per woman.
00:14:19.620In Israel, the government subsidizes pretty much all IVF and covers an unlimited amount
00:14:25.160of rolls of the dice for women up to the age of 45 with their own eggs and up to 51 with donor
00:14:31.380eggs. It costs the government $315 million per year to fund a pretty steep failure rate. Once
00:14:38.780again, only 5% of live births are from IVF. Researchers agree this has very little to do
00:14:44.160with Israel's unusually high fertility rate for a developed nation, 2.85. Instead, the experts cite
00:14:50.540the immense religious and social pressure on women to have as many kids as possible, not least because
00:14:55.960of geopolitical concerns. If the United States were to subsidize IVF in a similar fashion, it would1.00
00:15:02.000cost the taxpayer about $5.5 billion per year. And like Australia, there's no guarantee that cash
00:15:09.120would increase the American fertility rate at all. And there's a high price to pay for limited
00:15:14.180results, chronic failure, just because modern women across the developed world have proven0.99
00:15:19.380themselves incapable of basic life planning. In other words, it's a high price to pay for a1.00
00:15:25.300streaming pile of self-indulgent feminist BS. In the United States, a woman's median age for first1.00
00:15:31.720baby is 28 years old. Digging into that average, we find that 37.6% of the first births are to
00:15:38.840women past the age of 30 and when you start that late you're less likely to have two or three kids0.95
00:15:44.400it is no wonder that the u.s fertility rate is so low in nations that are even more far gone like
00:15:49.940the uk and australia the average age of first birth is 30 and 32 years old respectively in
00:15:56.140terms of percentage of mothers who have had their first kid past the age of 30 it is an estimated
00:16:01.06045 in the uk and 55 in australia even when women do not use ivf as a fallback they are having kids
00:16:08.820later and later and later. The primary causes are selfishness and poor planning. The results of0.87
00:16:14.600this shift in female behavior is predictable. By now, you've probably heard the quoted Morgan0.85
00:16:19.440Stanley statistic that 45% of women between the ages of 25 to 44 years old being single and
00:16:26.120childless by 2030. But women at age 25 still have a few years left in their fertility window to get
00:16:31.980started. If only they would get out of the workforce or get the stranger's out of their1.00
00:16:35.960mouth. Instead of relying on the Morgan Stanley statistic, we can delve deeper into the problem
00:16:41.380for more accurate and nevertheless harrowing numbers. Current rates of involuntary childlessness
00:16:47.360in women past the age of 35 and not counting women who are infertile for medical reasons
00:16:52.460are estimated 16% of older women in the United States, 18% of older women in the UK, 20% of such
00:16:59.980cases in australia 25 in japan and a whopping 28 in south korea to be clear we are not counting0.99
00:17:07.120the small minority of chelsea handler types who say they don't want kids and cope with an endless
00:17:12.040supply of white wine and frequent speeches about how happy they are without children we're just0.99
00:17:19.080talking about women who missed the mark and deeply regret it one six to over one quarter of aging
00:17:25.100women across the world, depending on the country. And those numbers are only expected to grow as the
00:17:31.420years go by. Some of those women may wind up having kids at the 11th hour. Many won't. Either1.00
00:17:38.200way, it's a horrendous epidemic of misery that you often won't see discussed on the nightly news,1.00
00:17:43.760because it completely invalidates the feminist lifestyles currently being advocated to all1.00
00:17:51.300young women. So imagine again that you were the high school age girl. Are you going to swallow1.00
00:17:56.220the same lies that poisoned three going on four generations? Or are you going to learn from their
00:18:01.920mistakes and start a family earlier? And if you really think a career is going to fulfill you
00:18:07.420spiritually and philosophically, you could always start in the workforce a few years later and still
00:18:13.100have literal decades to girl boss to your heart's content. But something tells me supported by a
00:18:19.100good husband and surrounded by a loving family, by that point, most of you won't give a damn.
00:18:25.140Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.