There's a very very very obvious dollar value attached to these policies. By discouraging the workforce from having families and kids (let alone single-income households) you effectively eliminate their main long-term expenses and reduce the pressure on the wages. You then start substituting the declining population with immigrants from countries with lower standard of living, and you've hit the jackpot. Your profits go up, your stock goes up, your salary expenses stay the same.
This wouldn't fly 60 years ago when the economy was much more decentralized. There was no single large entity (or related group of entities) that would benefit from such policies. If you run a small business and personally know every employee, you wouldn't think of such a thing. This bodes well in the current model where every child-free worker is an extra $50K lifetime value for their employer, translating into 5 extra cents per share.
This wouldn't fly 60 years ago when the economy was much more decentralized. There was no single large entity (or related group of entities) that would benefit from such policies. If you run a small business and personally know every employee, you wouldn't think of such a thing. This bodes well in the current model where every child-free worker is an extra $50K lifetime value for their employer, translating into 5 extra cents per share.