Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "How Orban’s “Pro-Baby” Policies are Bankrupting Hungary" video.

  1. Being a dictator is usually all the encouragement needed for people to want to flee a country, Hungary more or less going that way is unlikely going to encourage people to want to have kids to raise in that kind of environment, regardless of what pro-baby policies the government cooks up, and this is in a country that is being shielded by the EU and it's internal market, if Hungary didn't have easy access to that, investment in the country would likely dry up and hurt the economy. Nowadays almost all modern countries are having issues with births, people for whatever reason don't seem to want to have kids any more, and if it wasn't for immigration, things would get dire quite quickly with a hit to the economy, lower tax revenue and immigrants seem more likely to have kids then natives seem to have in modern countries, so the issue is much worse than people realise and it's probably why immigration in almost all modern countries is quite high and not going down, I'm not sure if they can realistically bring it down a lot when we are entering an ageing population where there might not be enough of the young generation to support the older generation, which might force more immigration just to keep the system stable unless the natives start having more kids, but clearly, ever policy being tried doesn't seem to work and are expensive. In any case, for countries like Hungary, the situation is worse because they are still a developing country and because of the current leadership and the way the system is changing, it's probably turning off many people from wanting to live there. As for why couples don't seem to want to have as many kids now, who knows, but this is an issue that is effecting a lot of countries, especially modern ones, and it's likely going to get worse before it gets better because all the policies that are being tried to encourage more births, don't really seem that effective, and I think the real problem is for a lot of people is that kids are expensive, cost of living is high, housing is expensive, the world isn't as stable and optimistic as it used to be, then throw in the lack of time because of work demands and it's easy to see why birth rates are low and dropping, I get the impression that people don't want the burden of wanting to bring kids up in this world, and no amount of bribes from governments is likely going to change that until the fundamentals in society have changed to allow people to want to have more kids. Still, it will be interesting to see how much money governments try to throw at the problem with limited to no success, until they realise that they can't throw money at this problem to fix it and they need to fix the deep issues in society to change that, whiles immigration is only a temporary solution and clearly that is causing a lot of political issues in the west, so lets see how long it takes before governments start to wake up and fix the real issues on why this is happening and not paper over the cracks around the edges, because things are going to continue to get worse which is feeding the far right moment in Europe and North America. The funny irony is for Hungary and Orbán, the open boarder in the EU isn't helping Orbán case, he seems to hate the EU but hates the idea of leaving the EU because the country would likely go in the gutter much quicker without easy access to the EU market and forign investment drying up by not having easy access to the market, Orbán is the ultimate hypocrite that wants to play all sides, including his own people, but in the end, he's hurting his own country over the long run because of his policies, it's just a question of when and how long it takes for the people to realise that, I suspect when it's too late and the damage is done.
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