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Anything to help people that want to have children is good.
As long as people who don't want to have children aren't pressured. Not everyone is interested in parenting, and that needs to be accepted.
China isn't good about things like that. They have billions of people, they aren't going to worry about the feelings of those not contributing to the machine.
How have you taken a good thing for people and turned it into a bad thing for you.
Can't you just be happy for others without making it about yourself?
China is not doing this out of kindness or altruism in any respects. They don't care about people wanting to have kids. They're doing it because they need more poor people to keep working and replenishing the poor workers, to prop up the elite class. Why can't you see this?
Not isolated to China. Most western countries including the US have the same goals, it's not altruistic.
Yes, there is real concern that measures to prop up birth rates might become coercive. That people may feel pressured to reproduce whether they want to or not.
By who?
There is nothing the cpc could do that would register compared to the pressure exerted by the average parent.
You don't foresee governments being capable of engaging in coercive, if not outright totalitarian measures?
As a simple hypothetical example: consider the effect of banning (or otherwise significantly restricting) contraceptives.
Governments? Yes. China specifically? Probably not. Korea maybe, because they've been having some extremely normal politics as of late.
Sure but that's a totally different discussion than the other commentor making it about themselves
I don't live in China, so this isn't about me.
Did you hurt yourself making that stretch?
Exactly it's not about you.
So why are you commenting that some people DONT WANT KIDS and this shouldnt be forced on us.
You are making it about yourself.
The only person trying to make it about me is...you.
Quit trying to make it happen, and stop with the fucking gaslighing.
The original comment was
"Anything that helps people that want to have children is good"
Your response was
"As long as people who don't want to have children aren't pressured. Not everyone is interested in parenting, and that needs to be accepted."
At no point was anyone's talking about forcing people to have kids. You've built a strawman and are arguing about something that nobody is talking about.
You. You have made it about yourself and are now trying to pretend you didn't.
Swing. And a miss
The fact you can't reflect on how your own words come across is a huge red flag
Good luck @EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
You seem to be the only one using such a stretched interpretation. You went out of your way to interpret something in the worst manner possible. And now you're just fixated on your own misinterpretation and using it to pick a fight. That's the huge red flag you're talking about.
I don't see anyone jumping in here to support you. At least Yawweee seems to get it.
Childbirth costs isn't what's preventing people from having babies though
You're right, falling birth rates are affecting people in rich and poor countries alike.
I think the answer is more complicated and has a lot to do with our collective psychology as a species, what we're consuming and what we're feeling about our futures.
That said, money and cost do play a huge role in this. People have complicated feelings on having families right now, and the barrier of cost is a great idea for the brain to seize onto as a validation for avoiding continuation of the species.
In China even high schools are paid, the answer is not complicated in this case. It’s just crazy expensive to have children in China with the local salaries
They subsidize a lot more than childbirth
pixelated porn?
Given how overpopulated the planet is, I'm not a fan
nah, disagree. not anything.
That seems somewhat unfair towards people with other interests who aren't being subsidized.
China is thinking long-term and practical. If they lose their young work-force it won't matter what those "other people" are doing or not.
Someone in China told me once that one of the biggest differences between China and Europe/USA is that in the west we think in terms of years or decades. In China they are making plans for the next several centuries.
This isn't a glowing endorsement of the heinous shit China has done, but it should at least make you understand that this isn't a social welfare program designed to help families as much as the first of many measures to fight the forces that are eroding the power and production capability of other countries. If you want to see how bad it can get, look into what the future holds for South Korea.
Let's face it, in neoliberal democracies we barely think past the next quarter. Next election cycle at the most!
I would love a government with a long term outlook rather than one that is concerned only with getting re-elected or failing that getting a cushy job with one of their "donors" after they leave office
Lol, and BangCrash went out of their way to be offended by my comment in this post.
BTW, I'm not attacking you and don't really care. I just feel that I was unfairly singled out.
I agree with this in the basis of the thought. But depending on the social security in various countries there are groups that abuse this help. So I'm hoping that loopholes are plugged at the same time.
That kind of thinking is what stops the US from implementing any kind of decent social programs. If your first concern is ppl taking advantage of it you're not really concerned with helping ppl
I'm not from the US... Not by far. Where I'm from many people abuse the system by having an exorbitant amount of children (10+), get free kindergarten care, extra money, don't work, don't contribute to society, steal, cause issues, etc.
Are you familiar with the term “anecdote”?
This policy that would help hundreds of millions of people could potentially be abused by thousands!
Those who advocate means testing deserve nothing at all
How could you abuse this? If I have a child and get my medical costs covered, I don't get any additional benefits if I ditch the child.