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South Korea’s fertility rate sinks to record low despite $270bn in incentives
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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What sane and educated person is actually deciding to have children?
Plenty of wealthy people have large families, it's only a problem for non-multi-millionaires
To have an anonymous stranger on the internet make a poem for them
I'm trying to comprehend what I just saw.
Is this a pro antinatalist video? The guy does the spiel about how having kids is bad for humanity, and then offers to cut his throat. Is the goal here to demonstrate that antinatalists hate children, or to offer the argument that you shouldn't have children?
Utopia (British version), not the U.S. version, is a really great show that is very collapse of civilization aware. It even weaves it into the story. The bad guys in the show have a logical reason for their actions. It raises the question, “do the means justify the end?”
It also has great visuals and soundtrack.
I might have to check it out. Thanks.
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Depending on the sub, you will either get upvotes (yeah, the world sucks!) or downvotes (how can you hate children you monster!) for a comment like that.
Yeah, I don't even hate kids...but I'd never have one.
Surprised to see none of the comments mentioning the 4B movement
What is the 4B movement?
it's a feminist movement, in backlash to misogyny and pro-natalism in South Korea (it's becoming more widespread, though). The 4Bs are the "four no's":
- no dating men
- no sex with men
- no marriage with men
- no childbearing
It gets a lot of pushback and is called selfish etc. but women are very angry & upset that the government only sees them for their reproductive use, and it's reasonable to not want to date someone who doesn't view you as human.
went to read up on it and not suprised. Cousins friend of a friend went to Korea for vacation once and was raped on her trip there. Grew androphobia because of the incident.
if youre female in South Korea, please try avoiding going to clubs and parties, especially if you dont have a person to watch over you.
I only recently learned of this and found it fascinating to read about. This shows just how broken a society it is, this is like the mouse utopia experiment all over again.
Am I the only one who thinks it's stupid to use taxpayer money just to make rich people richer?
This isn't solving the problem, it's making it worse.
Every government in the world does this, sadly. It's almost as if rich people look after themselves when they take positions in government.
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