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Is there evidence of this urban legend?

it's not a legend at all. I think you skipped the article I quote near the end. https://julienreszka.com/blog/pensions-buy-fewer-babies-cutt...

This is AI slop.

bots accusing bots of bottery

truly a 2026 moment

no it's not

Would millenia of data from primarily agricultural, family-worked farms suffice?

Sure. Let's see the ancient Egyptian papyrus where poor farmers describe how they actually don't like sex but they need more farmhands.

I'm sorry, but this is absolutely brain dead.