A report suggesting girls begin school a year earlier than boys in order to raise Korea's birthrate has faced strong backlash.

“Notably, Chang’s report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and marry and have children further down the line.”

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“The report does not include evidence of any correlation between female students’ early enrollment and the success rate of their romantic relationships with men. The author also does not detail specific mechanisms by which his proposed policy would increase romantic attraction or birthrates.”

  • loics2@lemm.eeEnglish
    134·
    6 months ago

    Yeah but what about eco-anxiety which is another big reason to not wanting a child, and which is another effect of capitalism

    • KecessaEnglish
      55·
      6 months ago

      Eco anxiety wasn’t a thing in the 70s and 80s, birthrate in rich nations was still under 2 for locals.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        6 months ago

        During the time period when the highest tax brackets fell from 70% to 50%… Down to now 37%.

        Surely the people holding the most money paying near half the taxes they used to didn’t cause them to hold onto that money and drive more and more money up into their hands.

        But I have it invested! So you can’t tax it yet, but I rolled it into a company so you can’t tax it or if you can you can’t tax me the same way!

        For capitalism to work there has to be strong legal bindings to taxing the rich and subsidizing the poor to make sure they don’t get steamrolled by the system.

        We having been pumping the breaks for years on those responsibilities, and more and more people in turn will get steamrolled and forced into starvation, homelessness. The mental health rates being low are directly tied to money in the middle and lower classes.

        If we made a rule that for every 10 people who committed suicide do to scarcity that the richest person would be killed as well, we would run out of rich people not trying to promote subsidizing the poor pretty quick and trying to get the happiness of the people up instead of only worrying about profits.

        That’s crazy obviously… But we need healthier motivation to make the world a better place. That isn’t a healthy one.

        • KecessaEnglish
          73·
          6 months ago

          Look at historical data, birthrate just goes down as nations develop, it’s true everywhere no matter how taxed the rich are or how much fertility programs exist. The whole world isn’t the USA.