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Too lazy to math, but I asked chatgpt/claude to guestimate TSMC TFR given numbers in article and it returns something absurd like 6. Which has to be wrong. Reg
by maxglute 2y ago
Too lazy to math, but I asked chatgpt/claude to guestimate TSMC TFR given numbers in article and it returns something absurd like 6. Which has to be wrong.
Regardless, article acknowledges TSMC accounts for 20% of Taiwans GDP for 0.3% of population, that kind resources per capita for family friendly policies can't scale. I'd be curious to know actual TFR of this cohort i.e. most affluent famillies I know below 2. Including most religious/conservative who has all the resources (maids etc) to have big families but don't. IMO short of god mandating at least 3 kids, TFR settles belows 2 because most don't want to handle more than 1-2 kids, no matter how wealthy they are. I guess people don't want to drive minivans.
Also does this pattern hold for Samsung who accounts for 20% of SKR GDP and employs 0.5% of population?