South Korea’s entire model for convincing women to have kids is based on the theory that they are not having kids because of economic concerns.
This isn’t going to work.
Seriously.
This is not an economic issue. That is a total hoax.
Women will not have kids unless you remove their options. You cannot talk them into it. That will not work.
As South Korea scrambles to halt the sharp decline in its birth rate, policymakers are having a hard time convincing many in their 20s and 30s that parenthood is a better investment than stylish clothes or fancy restaurants.
Asia’s fourth-largest economy plans to launch a new government ministry dedicated to demographic challenges after years of incentives failed to ease the baby crisis.
But for Park Yeon, a 28-year-old fashion Instagrammer and aspiring singer, spending choices are guided mostly by her appetites for clothing and travel, leaving little budget for marriage and babies.
HAHAHAHA.
Yeah.
The bitch is going to become a hit singer when she’s 34. At 28, she’s right on the edge of becoming a top world sex symbol.
“I’m all about YOLO (you only live once),” said Park as she sells her Supreme T-shirts at a thrift fashion festival in Seoul’s high-fashion enclave of Seongsu-dong.
“There isn’t enough left to save each month after I do things to reward myself. Getting married might happen at some point but being happy right now – that’s more important, right?”
South Korea continues to break its own record for having the world’s lowest birth rate, which hit a fresh low last year.
That is literally the mindset of 100% of women who are not compelled by circumstance to get married and have kids.
Women have free reign. They can do whatever they want. Life is a big party for them.
If you want them to have kids, you have to box them in somehow.
I prefer the Taliban method.
That is the ideal.
But you can manipulate women in a lot of different ways. The goal is simply to limit their options, to force them onto a path of marriage and children at a young age. Simply changing the way the university entry and professional hiring systems work would go a long way towards doing that. Massive social shaming of women would do a lot too, although that would be complicated in any of these countries with massive pussy-worship entertainment media industries.
I am aware that 95% of the readership of this site are K-pop fans, but it is a pussy-worship industry that tells women to “reward themselves” and “focus on happiness.”
You would have to cut all of that out if you wanted to shame women.
Probably, you could make the music all about getting married and having kids, and have all the K-pop idols be pregnant half the time. That might work. But you can’t have shame while the culture revolves around a bunch of skanks doing the slut-strut.
But again, even if you didn’t have shame, if you just locked women out of the universities and most professions, you could box them into young marriage.
The big thing is: it’s not about money. Money is not even the 10th thing it is about. The poorest women in the world have the highest birthrates.
“The birthrate is an economic problem” is a total nonsense claim, and it creates a stupid situation where governments are attempting to solve a problem that does not even exist. This basically comes down to men projecting masculine thought patterns onto women in order to try to understand them better, and they are not understanding them at all.
Women will tell you it is about money. But women do not even understand their own behavior. And they lie to men. Women saying the birthrate is a money issue is complete irrelevant to anything. It’s totally meaningless, as proved by the fact that women with no money do nothing but reproduce.
We used to talk about the fact that economic prosperity lowers the birthrate, now we’re talking about how we need more economic prosperity to raise the birthrate. It’s dumb. It’s incredible that people are still saying this.
You have to limit their options.
The Taliban is the most extreme example of “limiting options,” because they block women in at every turn, but if you don’t want to do that, you have to come up with at least some way to limit their options.
Banning birth control, including abortion, is a start. Blocking them out of school and work is a start. Social shaming is a start. You can come at this from all kinds of different angles. There are various things that would help, starting points to move from. None of them are related to economics.
Again, let me repeat: economic prosperity is what causes the birthrate to drop.
These women are living in absolute luxury, by any historical standard. If you doubled their money, they would double the luxury. They would buy handbags that are twice the price, sushi that is twice the price, makeup that is twice the price, etc.
South Korea is probably doomed already. They are on a path to extinction.
Not a single province in South Korea has a fertility rate above 1.0 pic.twitter.com/5iGubbbexC
— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban) May 26, 2024
I do hope, however, that others can learn from these failures.