"We've got a birthrate crisis, maybe we should make it so a single income of someone working 40 hours a week can support a family of 4?"

"... Or we could explore literally every other option no matter how ridiculous and not do anything which would impact corporate profits even a single penny."

Actual answer: stop overworking your fucking population.

South Korea, are you ok?

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This idea is a complete non-starter from a practical standpoint. Parents would complain about it either way. Either they wouldn't want girls in school early or they'd want boys in school early, too.

It's just much easier to treat children all the same.

Also, I personally think this plan would backfire. Girls graduating wouldn't want to have to be adults earlier than boys, so they'd stay in school longer. And from what I've heard, the most reliable way to reduce birth rates is to educate women more.

I think everyone also knows how to ethically increase the birth rate. Make having children easy and affordable. Lots of government assistance. Make sure everybody has access to cheap or free childcare.

And there's also the generational problems. Young adults can see the problems that the previous generations caused. You can't go back in time to fix those. It will be expensive to change this sort of thing.

But quick fixes aren't going to change the underlying problems.

It's really easy, and I'll explain it once again for the idiot governments in the back.

GIVE LARGE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR HAVING CHILDREN AND RAISING FAMILIES.

This concludes my Ted Talk.

Being this out of touch with reality is the problem with countries right now. The elites and politicians don’t know what’s going on because they are staying in power long past their usefulness.

Maybe try dealing with the massive reactionary anti-feminist incel movements that continue to victimize Korean women and girls daily? Just a thought.

This report imparts the image of a sweaty old man with steepled fingers tapping against each other panting heavily and grunting "little girls...develop faster..." And then letting that statement hang in the air, festering.

I'm of the opinion we just need to stop focusing so hard on raising the birthrate and focus more on taking care of the people and population we have. We don't need more people on the planet - 8 billion humans is plenty. We need to figure out successful economic strategies that don't require perpetual population growth rather than trying to breed our way into economic security.

They do anything before they pay people more.

They have a problem with patriarchy and not with birth rates. Birth rates are just the symptom.

Seeing that there is a big trend in young Korean women to abstain from men, marriage and family, I'd say starting to treat women like actual people could very well make a difference.

But yeah, getting them into school earlier and probably indoctrinate them earlier into good obedient wives could work too.

Jumping through hoops after Hoops after hoops all to avoid admitting that the problem is capitalism. Classic

"My source is I made it the fuck up"

TBF, it's possible this guy knows it's crap, but had to deliver an original idea.

Is there something similar to national service in Korea? Just wondering how the guys keep up in the job market when the girls have a 2 year head start.

I would like to see a large scaled research on that statement, like I know women hit puberty sooner but does that really mean mentally they do as well. Is it more of how woman are rear vs men. I do wonder if we thought me about emotions/feelings and teaching them younger how to deal with emotions and to be more if that would even the gap. Does anyone have any good research I could parse?

Our men need a handicap or they can't succeed