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Alright alright lol that is the better study.
And I'm not saying it's just money, but also just "earnest" messaging can have effects. If it's coupled with socio economic conditions.
And right now we're facing inevitable climate change, escalating wealth inequality, very high inflation, war in Europe with an outlook of more war, a huge refugee wave looming, automation and AI relegating job security to a historical concept, uncertainties about future horrors technology, social media effecting how people perceive reality... so obviously it's not just that.
And yeah, I agree, many women today don't want to curtail their careers by dropping out of their job for a decade. But that is also at least partially a manufactured attitude through advertising and PR and can be changed. Except it's counter to capitalism.
But I'd be curious why you think money alone couldn't solve this fertility crisis. Or what could. I highly doubt any western country has offered enough money that would make up for giving up the second income.
Because women don’t just need money to have as many children as society wants.
Women don’t want to have as many children as society demands.
And unless we’re going to take away birth control and abortions and reproductive health options and continue to allow child marriage, I don’t think this is a trend we’re going to reverse quickly if at all.
And personally? That simply isn’t an option that should be considered.
It's not about just giving women more money to have children, it's investing money to create a society that is more conducive to having children. My main point is that whatever they spend to increase fertility, it wasn't enough.
The counter argument to increase spending is just to increase immigration and not increasing spending. At least outside japan lol.
I honestly don’t think there’s any amount of money, given to women or invested into society, that is going to significantly change women to want as many kids as they were forced to have in the past. Not without taking away reproductive rights and lemme tell you, they are trying really really hard to do exactly that in many places right now.
Immigration is a real solution to some of this. But it’s so much easier to hate immigrants and subjugate women, amiright?