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So instead of looking for the root cause of the problem (probably many factors, not just one), the government is doing what a stupid government is always doing:
by AdrianB1 4y ago
So instead of looking for the root cause of the problem (probably many factors, not just one), the government is doing what a stupid government is always doing: throw some money at the problem hoping it will be effective enough to win the next election. It is not solving any problem, just rolling it for later.
SK has a huge demographic problem; this one cannot be fixed later, when people are in their 40-es or even 50-es they cannot have babies anymore. Also giving money to 9 year old to socialize is weird, one would rather have them do team activities like sport or boy/girl/mixed scout, not give money - what financial culture does a 9-year old have?
- BlargMcLarg 4y ago>one would rather have them do team activities like sport or boy/girl/mixed scout Plenty of developed countries where mixed team activities are the norm and the fertility rates aren't looking that much better once you filter first/second generation immigrants (including, many are already bordering on Japan's levels). Having them do sports together until the age of 18 isn't going to solve the increasing cost of milestones, consumerism, increasing standards pushed by multimedia, crushing work cultures, pushing the norm to 30+, and more. Several of the aforementioned countries don't have half of these and still sit at 1.6 or less, while continuing to drop.
- AdrianB1 4y agoI am considering team sports as a way to (secondary) socialize, not to produce kids. Same for boy scout type of activities, in my experience people that do activities in nature get stronger spirits and are better at handling adverse conditions - for example kids in the Switzerland or Finland do a lot of outside activities at school.