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South Korea has officially entered the “super-aged” category, with 20% of its population (10.24 million people) now aged 65 or older, according to the interior ministry.

This marks a significant demographic shift, as the nation struggles with low birth rates and a rapidly aging population.

Regions like Jeolla Province report the highest elderly percentage (27.18%), while Sejong has the lowest (11.57%).

In response, the government plans to create a population strategy ministry to address the crisis with systematic measures and long-term solutions.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Fuck no.

The answer to capitalists demanding more desperate slaves isn't to provide them more desperate slaves.

It's the opposite. For all the power the global oligarchs have over all of us, it's one of the few things they'd have a great deal of difficulty forcing at gunpoint, as that just makes a stronger case for a mercy coat hanger abortion (since they'll be outlawed everywhere sooner or later to feed the needs of the glorious capital markets) later on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Idk man I love being a dad it’s just about the one thing that makes all this bearable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's great. I hope you have the money, education, time and empathy for kids. Most don't and should probably never have kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m doing all right but frankly *reproducing * is about as fundamental a human right and human experience as can be imagined. This antinatalist/childfree doomerism just seems like a rehash of individualizing the responsibility for environmental collapse that happened through the eighties and nineties. It’s the corporations and capitalists killing the world, not the people raising families.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

Why fuck up a kid just because you think you deserve to have one? Properly raising kids to be intelligent and productive members of society is hard and a lot of people royally fuck it up.

How many teens are having kids that can't afford them? How many drug addicted people are having kids? How many apathetic people are having kids? It's a fucking shame how many kids are let down by their parents.