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China is ending a decades-long tax exemption on contraceptives to push up its birth rate. Experts say the change could leave women and young people more vulnerable.
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Sure, wealthy people can easily prevent pregnancy while poor peoply have higher risk of having unwanted pregnancy. Sounds extremely smart and well thought through…
Welcome to China!
Seems pretty capitalist of them ngl
They want bodies for the machine
I don’t know how much they plan to increase the cost of a condom, but I’d wager that it will be cheaper than 18 years of life.
Economically stable people who feel safe in their society choose to have children.
China has not been sharing youth unemployment numbers for a year now, after they started approaching 20% unemployment for the 18-30 age range.
Economically stable people who feel safe in their society choose to have children
This logically makes sense, and may have even been something that you’ve experienced yours either directly or second hand via friends/family, but it’s not present in the data.
There’s a very strong negative correlation between education and income vs birth rate. As people make more money and/or attain higher levels of education they have fewer kids. My theory is that this is due to a combination of reliance on direct family for labor on a homestead/farmstead, sex ed, and access to contraceptives. Kids are also a large time/emotional/financial commitment and with our modern emphasis on “self sufficency” this places a heavy burden on parents. Some countries have tried softening this blow, but it hasn’t changed their birthday trend.
Not with climate change looming. I have all the money I need still won’t get kids.
36 years of government policy with harsh penalties for having more than one child doesn’t disappear quickly (1979-2015). They’ve trained two generations not to have kids, and the looming global climate disaster affects everyone worldwide. And while I haven’t looked into it, I think it’s a safe bet that in large Chinese cities the cost of living has also outpaced wages, like in nearly every other major city in the world. None of that is conducive to wanting to have kids.
Capitalisms only solution to problems is to continue the beating until morale improves, as long as it’s deemed the most profitable.
Literally no government is actually trying to improve the quality of life of its people in any tangible way that addresses the reasons they choose to be childfree.
The US birth rate and china’s birth rate are shockingly similar. I love how we point to their one child policy for their issues while ignoring what both populations are saying. Turns out run away capitalism is too blame. The one child policy doesn’t explain why both populations
Read the article. All they’re doing is getting rid of a tax exemption. The tax exemption existed because previous government policy was to reduce birthrates. Now that government policy is to increase birthrates, that exception was removed. They aren’t increasing costs by 5x or anything.
Chinese women should just refuse to have sex with men.
Women could change the world overnight if they’d ban together on denying sex. There were two warring tribes in Africa (last century, I forget) where the woman came together and said no poonanny until you boys are at peace. Instant peace.
I mean sure, if half the population agrees on anything it gets a lot easier to accomplish. Good luck convincing them though
It’s also the plot of the classic Greek play Lysistrata, wherein the eponymous protagonist incites a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian War.
sodomy is still free though yeah?
karashta@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Make a livable world and people will want to live in it.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Too bad that that’s not profitable in the short term.