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[Smee]

Government to Expand Childbirth Incentives

[endo]

Why is the government worried abut populaton decline?


There are already way too many people in this country.

[laogaiguk]

[endo]

Robots man. Get those bastards to fill in the jobs as the population declines.

The robots will be our new slaves. Humans love slaves, we've been doing it for thousands of years.


Seriously though, technology can easily fill in for a dwindeling population. And it will be a lot easier to do this in a country like South Korea which has the money and infastructure to pull it off.


Unfortunately, as the population declines in South Korea, it will be the lower classes who will be affected the most as they lack the necessary funds to raise children.

So the middle and upper middle class is where the only genuine population growth will come from. But they also have the money to raise a child that will be much more producutve in the greater Korean economy.

[pocketfluff]

[endo]

Yeah, the robots will be our slaves first, but then they'll turn the tables.

[laogaiguk]

[Smee]

Well, is there also the concern of supporting an aging population, as in Japan and China (with the lack of women to be married)? I don't have a breakdown of demographics, or anything, but I'd guess economics plus Confucianism play an equally big role here.

I just wonder where all this money will come from to fund these after-school programs.

[kat2]

It drives me nuts that countries like South Korea, Japan, or much of Europe is so concerned about birth rate decline. The world is already way over populated. The last thing we need to do is encourage overpopulation. If these countries would encourage immigration, their young laborer shortage would be gone. Globalization and free trade demands that there also be freer movement of laborers (both long and short term laborers).

[Juregen]