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> You can't "centrally plan" your way out of young people not wanting to reproduce. Sure you can. China has plenty of experience in adjusting the birthrate via

• tw04 3y ago
  You're talking about discouraging people from having children, which is (relatively) easy. There's yet to be a government that's figured out how to make any parent want to waste 18 years of their life raising a child that they don't otherwise want. You can't punish someone into raising a kid. You can fairly easily make the punishment great enough to discourage them.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    You really think they are above forcing pregnancies? They could quite easily install some sort of Handmaid's Tale situation. They have the perfect government for it.
  • lmm 3y ago
    > You're talking about discouraging people from having children, which is (relatively) easy. There's yet to be a government that's figured out how to make any parent want to waste 18 years of their life raising a child that they don't otherwise want. You can't punish someone into raising a kid. Almost everyone wants to have children if the conditions are right; the handful of misanthropes who don't are irrelevant. The reasons people choose not to are things that are eminently addressable by a government; risk that it will damage their career, fear they won't be able to support their children materially, or that they'll make damaging mistakes when raising them.