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Gary Mersham's avatar

I can't agree with your assumption that "the key to solving the problem of low fertility rates is to make childrearing a job with income and to ensure that the income of nurturing families is stable and predictable". The decision to choose to have a child is a commitment by a couple to have time to care and love that child (not to be forced to go to work to support the child). Social engineering is not working. Grinding out a "996" schedule prevents this. The popularity of Tangping, or "lying flat" in China is a manifest form of social protest against overwork and unrealistic expectations.

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Gerrard White's avatar

The comments here appear to be very USA skewed, personal freedom, love and such sentiments - typical of western style capitalism, and of a provincial branch at that

And to not understand that it is a matter of collective concern to ensure that fertility rates not continue to decline - as with the Economist article there seems to be no understanding of the fatality of the situation

Immigration is smugs game, a temporary palliative , zero sum by definition - sure, buying people from poorer countries is currently cheap, but is s exploitative, for those have to do the hard work of having rearing and educating - so just wait until they catch on! or to the not very far off point when their fertility rates decline as well

The original article is on a much higher level

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