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    In Kanada und den USA bekommen immer weniger Menschen Kinder und die Regierung hat keine Ideen mehr

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    2. Digitking003 on

      Skyrocketing housing costs, skyrocketing daycare costs, double-digit youth unemployment (delays career launch), etc. Meanwhile, the OAS program gets bigger and bigger every year…

      Yeah, it’s a real mystery.

    3. FujiKitakyusho on

      Here’s an idea: Instead of the young paying for the old, what if the wealthy paid for them?

    4. ROSRS on

      They know what the issue is. Children aren’t affordable, and housing is unavailable.

      They’d rather import workers from elsewhere than give Canadians decent wages and conditions.

      >“What we’re paying for old people is so high that there’s no fiscal space to do anything to support fertility.” 

      This is also part of the problem. Boomers are sucking the country dry and to oppose it is political suicide, but its simply not sustainable for young people. And they want to prop up that system with a generation of wage slaves from India to exploit, at least until they all die off and leave us to clean up their mess.

      The only other way to finance it would be to actually make the 1% pay their fair share. But they aren’t wiling to do that either.

    5. junkiewhisperer on

      >whats the matter with you damn peasants? we need more serfs! just eat the fucking brioche!

    7. thebigshoe247 on

      No they aren’t, it is easier/cheaper to just import from India instead of trying to make our lives better

    9. td192020 on

      Might be due to the fact that by the time I’ll be able to find a job that pays a living wage, and save up enough for a down payment on 2 bedroom house I’ll be like 50 and be too old to have kids… like come on.

    10. Different_Ad_6153 on

      Make living affordable without having to sacrifice everything for a career. While the few live lavish lives? I don’t think this is rocket science. 

    11. modsaretoddlers on

      It’s actually even more like the meme in that they haven’t tried anything, either.

    12. Cao_Ni-Ma on

      I’m assuming that most commenters here are men. Because women generally mention physical and mental risk, postpartum depression, career nuke and loss of free time rather than costs as the main reason why they don’t want children.

    13. FunkyColdMecca on

      Fertility dropped below replacement when the pill was invented. The simple fact is, as women get smarter they want fewer children, regardless of economics, environment or culture. Fix that issue without any draconian measures and you can have more kids.

    16. Electrical-Strike132 on

      How about a future? If there was one of those, maybe people would want to have children.

    18. bathinggrapes on

      How about not selling all the land to foreign investors, lining the pockets of billionaires and taxing the middle class till we can’t afford anything?

    19. swarly780 on

      As a parent in Canada. I can think of about 10 ideas that would make having a bigger family appealing.

      But non of them are free…sooooo

    20. ARunOfTheMillPerson on

      It’s a mystery we may never know the answer to. Except we do and it’s housing and it’s always housing and every issue with a question mark here for the next 20 years is always going to be housing until we fix housing.

    21. MrDanduff on

      I wonder why? Getting taxed to the tits, everything expensive as hell, no adequate social safety nets…

    22. Rrraou on

      Ain’t nobody intentionally making babies in this economy. Not when Birth control exists. Bring back affordable housing and livable wages early enough in life to matter. Then we’ll talk.

    23. YawnY86 on

      Canada is just importing families because Canadians can’t afford children’s.

    25. FunkyTownSandwich on

      WFH appears to have had a significant positive impact on Canada’s birth rate.

      After births dropped during early COVID, Canada saw live births rebound by about 2.6% in 2021, right when remote work was widespread.

      Correlation doesn’t prove causation, but more time at home, less commuting, and more flexibility likely helped some families decide to have kids.

      Want to improve birth rate? WFH is the answer.

    27. locoghoul on

      If rent was half of what people are paying right now maybe they’ll feel like having more babies

    29. skankyferret on

      Anything but taxing the rich enough to prevent billionaires and restore the middle class… or making housing affordable…

    30. Chokycorgi on

      We’re broke that’s why. There’s no jobs, houses cost a kidney and a half.

    33. 4firsts on

      The only way to fix this is to make it so that children can start working at a younger age. Like the old days where kids would work to help support the family. The more kids, the easier a household can support the costs of living.

      This is obviously sarcasm.

    34. xXDankStormXx on

      „We have tried nothing, and we are all out of ideas“ ~ The Canadian Government

    35. angry-grapefruit on

      I didn’t realize until having a child how our entire society is stacked against two working parents. But if we don’t both work, we can’t afford to live.

      My condo may have doubled in price in 12 years, but so have all other houses. But my salary hasn’t. Just the cost of existing has doubled.

    36. Polyps_on_uranus on

      They’ve tried nothing AND fuck all and now they’re out of ideas

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