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Birth rates are collapsing in rural India as well. Even where women have an extremely low participation rate in the labor force. I don’t think the issue is sim
by puranjay 4y ago
Birth rates are collapsing in rural India as well. Even where women have an extremely low participation rate in the labor force.
I don’t think the issue is simply “cities have less space, working couples have less money”. Its likely more complicated than that, because nothing really explains why people in India’s vast rural areas would have so few kids.
- Nasrudith 4y agoIndia has issues with traditional farming being uncompetitive, highlighted by infamous farmer suicides. Pesticides were commonly fingerpointed in the past with simplistic "Monsanto responsible for all bad" narratives, but they didn't stop to think. Not using their products would leave the farmers even worse off economically. Better yield is why they pay. Kids aren't valued anymore economically. Parents will spend a lot but kids aren't seen as a literal asset but as a sacrifice. Altogether it suggests that at some point if governments want more reproduction they will have to subsidize it more strange as it sounds. It hasn't been a problem in the past from growing poorer undeveloped regions but eventually we could run out of people to uplift economically, leaving even the most xenophilic to have to breed more as immigration numbers wind up low. That scenario probably won't come to pass this century, but potentially the next or later.
- bamboozled 4y agoGovernments wanting people to breed and have kids is so creepy.
- snapcaster 4y agoIt's not just governments, even god said "go forth and multiply"