1y ago

Seoul enhances infertility aid in response to 0.55 total fertility rate

www.chosun.com

East Asia countries birth rate crisis continues. In response to total fertility rate of 0.55, Korea enhances infertility aid.

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It baffles me that the SK government is evidently incapable of understanding that the issue is wage slavery. Everyone needs to work themselves to the bone, and every single time there’s an efficiency improvement, wages don’t go up and hours worked don’t decline, but “the economy” gets “stronger”. Which most workers don’t actually see any benefit from. So don’t be surprised that your citizens simply don’t have the energy or free time to even consider starting a family.
You can, of course, replace “SK” with many other countries, and the paragraph still works 100%.
- Capitalism works more efficiently than politics. Politics needs a big overhaul to deal with this.
  
  A better strategy would be to pull back from late-stage capitalism and find some sort of equitable happy medium between that and socialism that doesn’t also destroy our ecosystem, while maintaining a (small-d) democratic form of government.
seems like they're willing to try anything but fix their dogshit work culture
- Leaders don't really care about the culture. The current economic and financial system need growth and most growth comes from increasing population. That's their real concern.
- No question the world is struggling with 9 billion people, and developed world is using excessive amount of resources.
  The rigid definition of "countries" may stand in the way of a more collaborative world though.
  
  Pretty sure that the current construct of nations is not well equipped to face any of global challenges.
- Careful. The last time I suggested that we needed fewer people in the world, I was accused of being a Eugenicist.
  
  Everyone can agree we need fewer people, but the discussion on how to achieve that invariably has issues
  
  Tankies consider any form of population control to be a form of eco fascism. Evangelicals feel pretty much the same.
  
  I mean, because it’s not true.
  We have more than enough resources to feed everyone on earth. We have the land, we have the money to pay the farmers, we have the infrastructure to transport it anywhere in the world easily and quickly. The issue we’re having isn’t too many people, but a small group of people utilizing multiples of the energy they need, and dozens of multiples of the energy of the masses of the world.

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