Wie Südkorea laut Experten seine niedrige Geburtenrate bewältigen sollte
https://time.com/6962867/south-korea-low-fertility-rate-birth-cash-programs-quality-life/
Wie Südkorea laut Experten seine niedrige Geburtenrate bewältigen sollte
https://time.com/6962867/south-korea-low-fertility-rate-birth-cash-programs-quality-life/
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ss: What is the right answer?
Contrary to the opinions of such experts, the Korean government has recently greatly improved its cash support(until now now, it was $3,000 for birth and $20,000 including child allowance), and it seems that in the future, only the central government plans to provide direct cash support of $100,000 in U.S. dollars per child upon birth. (For reference, this is (This figure excludes corporate support, local government support, etc.) This is an unprecedented and unimaginable amount of cash support in the world. It seems as if all of Korea’s fortunes have been placed on rising birth rates. A huge amount of money is being poured into childbirth support. And many netizens who are desperate to increase the birth rate are enthusiastically supporting the plan.
Will something like this really help Korea’s birth rate? Or will it fail to increase the birth rate and become a disaster for Korea’s finances?
In fact, the government is starting to survey netizens about providing $100,000 per baby.
[https://www.epeople.go.kr/api/thk/qstnr/selectQstnrThinkBoxDetail.npaid?ideaRegNo=1AE-2404-0000432](https://www.epeople.go.kr/api/thk/qstnr/selectQstnrThinkBoxDetail.npaid?ideaRegNo=1AE-2404-0000432)
According to the article they are giving 74$ a month per baby. That’s not a lot. SK is an expensive country to live in. In Denmark families with less than average income get around 700$ a month until the child is two. After that a bit less. Dropping to around 400$ when the child is 7.
I think the article is very wrong
They could just allow immigration. . . Slowly backs out door
The ONLY way to fix the declining birth rate is to completely change the SK social and cultural expectations of 60+ hour work-weeks and obsessive fixation on social climbing at work and fixating on being seen as the best worker evar.
Encourage people to stay home, work as little as possible, while subsidizing couples to have 5 kids on average, while paying for their housing, food, education, health care and everything else you need to raise a large family.
Do that for as many people as possible and do it for 3-4 generations.
Pray that people choose to have large families.
Everything else is just rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic while it sinks.
The direction remains wrong: [https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/samsung-increases-work-week-to-6-days-for-executives-amidst-mounting-pressure-426158-2024-04-19](https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/samsung-increases-work-week-to-6-days-for-executives-amidst-mounting-pressure-426158-2024-04-19)
Financial support is not everything, and a mother’s place next to her child, especially in the first 2 years, is critical in this respect.
How about making it financially feasible for a family to live on a single income? That’s the only thing that will help.
The answer is RIGHT THERE but I guess it doesn’t fit the corporate overlord’s worldview. Just force people to work less. And by „force“ I mean introduce actual laws that prohibit people for working more than reasonable, because they WILL lick their bosses‘ boots anyway. You can’t change the culture overnight, but if those bosses have to pay fines, they’ll learn to send their employees home.
I don’t get how stupid you have to be to expect people to start families with almost negative free time. No amount of free money is going to convince me to push out a child or two only to forget about them and go back to business. If I have children, I want to actually raise and bond with them. Can’t do that when I’m back home at 8pm and have other responsibilies. Time can’t be bought.
Blatant bribery may help, but at the same time countries can’t afford it.
It’s too late for South Korea. Country would need to develop artifical wombs to survive at this point.
I wonder how low populations and birthrates have to fall before the actual way to improve them – fixing capitalism – is implemented. Given that the people in power have no reason to actually fix anything, I’m gonna guess a long while.
Just watched a video covering this.
I think support is good, but SK has to tackle housing or this aid will go no where. Housing around Seoul is the worst in the developed world.
This puts too much economic burden on people to want to have kids, and forces 60+ hour work loads.
Invent artificial wombs already, it’s insane that women have to go through that shit