Why choose to explicitly mention that number? It becomes a focus point, which turns it into a metric to optimize.

It’s a new article that is desperate for clicks.

<Insert large number> grabs people’s attention.

Because some people who don't care about raising children do care about the economy.

I was answering to the post that it's just a number, which I don't really agree with. This topic seems to be quite emotionally loaded.

> Because some people who don't care about raising children do care about the economy.

This seems even worse for me than "it's just a number", since in the long-term is a contradiction that leads to collapse. The economy is a sum of human activity, and the future economy will be done by today's children. If you don't raise them well you're simply extracting value created by others that wasn't quantified just so you can pad your metrics.

Not caring about children when you're thinking about the economy is like not training any new employees, but only extracting maximum value from your existing workforce, but done on a societal level.

Tell me with a straight face that politicians, the media and people in general don't obsess over GDP growth.

It’s bad if it’s misleading.