China bietet Eltern 1.500 US -Dollar an, um die Geburten zu steigern
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Honestly it’s so ironic that they imposed the one-child policy, only to now realize their mistake and try to reverse it
I don’t know why countries do this. Various countries have done similar things (e.g. Australia tried implementing a baby bonus which was a lump sum of $5000 which was stopped in 2014) and they all failed. Is learning from the mistakes of other’s not a thing anymore? Or is it just that they don’t want to deal with the real issues so come up with these piss-weak band-aid non-solutions?
Honestly, the $1,500 total subsidy spread over a few years sounds more like a band-aid than a real fix. China’s demographic issues aren’t just about immediate costs, it’s the whole lifestyle and social pressures that make having kids less appealing. with skyrocketing housing prices, brutal work cultures and education costs through the roof a few hundred bucks a year probably won’t tip the scales
One year at the local kindergarten in T2 city: 30k€. Without counting the uniform, food, eventual appartement.
I have the feeling this won’t be helping much…
Not even enough for the diapers
I love my children too much to bring them into this broken and dying world. Governments and corporations be damned.
Why do countries want to throw peanuts at a major problem that THEY created?! We NEED: affordable childcare, affordable & accessible quality education & healthcare & housing, work life balance, etc.
Offering $1500 is a joke. Admit that late stage capitalism is shit and fix it NOW
… Would China pay me to come knock women up?
Australia had the baby bonus years ago! Not sure whether it had any impact on birth rates though.
In my country, those who live in the slums struggling financially are producing 8, 9, to a dozen children meanwhile rich folks with 6-digit salaries living in high-rise apartments are single and doing one night stand encounters. The problem isn’t just about the money, it’s the culture.
I don’t think this is a problem that can be fix without a complete restructuring of society and not necessarily for the better.
Births rate is down almost universally across vastly different societies and cultures.
I think its just a matter of urbanism, that’s the only constant. Rome saw birth rates drops too. Cities have always been population sinks and now everyone is in a city or close enough to be influence by urbanism. And I don’t want to think about how fixing that would work.
China try to print babies like print money, but no work!
Better than banning porn like the UK has.
What is $1500 going to accomplish?
That’s more than they make in a year. They must really need child labor.
That doesn’t do shit 😂
No one is going have a baby just because of $1500. It is just a drop in the bucket, plus all the sleepless nights, and life-style changes.
It is always so pathetic, seeing goverments try to get people have more kids with the equivalent of a few pennies. like, if you really want people to have more children, you should give them money equal to the extra expenses needed to raise the child to 18 at minimum. so definitly nothing below 100k.
The folks who think getting $1500 is a good reason to have another kid are not the sort you want having more kids though.
China of today is like 90s Japan, technologically highly advanced, leading in innovation, but soon will limited by shrinking youth population (unless full scale automation happens). No wonder, CCP is heavily invested in AI as a National Interest
Huh? Weren’t they not allowed to have more than two kids at first?
Do you have to be Chinese and married to the mother?
Perhaps I could impregnate my way around China to pay for my holiday.
Most overpopulated country just cant seem to stop.
The framing of this feels slightly disingenuous to me. How is this any different from the tons of tax breaks that western countries offer to parents of young kids? This article uses wording that makes it sound like some bizarre scheme when almost every country has long recognized the value of their citizens having children and has created both direct (tax breaks or cash handouts) and indirect (subsidies or programs to help with the expensive parts of having kids) incentives to have kids. China is being pretty normal here actually.
Isn’t China the 2nd most populous Country in the world?
Too little money lol for 20 years of caring. Do they think people go for it?
Come on, you can do better…by increasing a god damn life standards and pay.
Were they not killing baby girls just 2 decades ago?
If $1500 is encouraging someone to have a kid then they probably can’t afford to have a kid in the first place.
I’ve been living in China for 8 years, even in teir 3 cities 1000 means nothing. $3000 maybe, but definitely not 1000
Too late for that, the damage is done
Just accept more immigrants. It’s literally that simple 🤷♂️
The feminist 4B movement is really large in china, Japan and Korea. Throwing such a small amount of money at women who are not treated well by men and by their society will not fix the problem. They do not want to have babies, they do not want to be married and no amount of money will fix that until there is sweeping social change.