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> South Korea, which has spent $200 billion in the last 16 years on programs to encourage childbirth, now has the world's lowest fertility rate.
Another government success story
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@lain there's a typo, it was "discourage" originally.
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@lain Weren't they in direct cahoot with a cabal of feminist or some really weird shit? That would absolutely kill childbirth rate lmao
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Government is not the problem, liberalism is. They did not address the root cause of infertility which is feminism.
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@rin @lain eugenics doesn't work cause even without it you can't get people to fuck, imagine having to then regulate who gets to fuck and doesn't
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@rin @lain >The government also encouraged Singapore men to choose highly educated women as wives, establishing the Social Development Unit (SDU) that year to promote socializing among men and women graduates, a unit that was also nicknamed "Single, Desperate and Ugly".
imagine trying to optimize for intelligence/education in breeding and just getting something called "Single, Desperate and Ugly" :risitas2:
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@lain looking at old ads/public campaigns/policies from countries to discourage childbirth and then looking at what they are doing now is one of my favorite schadenfreude activities
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@AshChapelsGhost @zero @lain "it is now illegal to work on Sunday, and illegal to require hourly workers to work more than 10 hours on a row"
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@zero @lain Government can't figure out "Hey, maybe we should incentivize children and marriage. How do we do that? Oh! We should do a study. And then another study. And still yet another study. That should tell us how to do that." doesn't work. 200 billion later, Koreans now won't fuck to save their own kind.
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200 billion US? thats an insane amount of money to encourage behavior that is generally already ingrained in human psyche.
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@maxmustermann @coolboymew @lain
>SK satanic cult scandal was 7 years ago
I'm old.
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@coolboymew @lain Ah yes. the daughters of Megalia. I still remember that shit. They also start going after Hentai artists after some pop idol died during the obligatory creeper session.
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@maxmustermann @coolboymew @lain
>daughters of Megalia
I rember.