Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by makeitdouble on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:32PM (#32588718)

There's a trend happening in many countries where economical stagnation or downturn push young people and couples to wait for better days to engage in romantic relationships or build families.

You could shelve that as "society not providing enough incentives", but to me it looks like a more complex issue than what's covered by carrot/stick mechanisms.

Not all issues leading to forgoing procreating are that complex, but putting any of them as "women chose to xxxx" is I think only useful at a micro level, and kinda misses the reasons why they chose to do so, which are usually not in any individual's hand.

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Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by imtringued on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:29AM (#32590705)

Capitalism has a minimum profitability requirements, simply being wealthy and having abundance does not mesh well with capitalism, instead the go to solution has been to send people to war and destroy all the wealth we built up so the rebuilding phase is profitable again. The fact that this profit is utterly pointless and does not increase human well-being doesn't matter.

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