Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "" video.

  1. ⁠Yet South Koreans are surprisingly notorious in committing visa overstays in the US.
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  2. Urban living minimizes use of the car for school commutes so the parents can keep working full time?
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  3. Also the older folks will continue to drown out the petitions of the youth in the meantime. The US faces a similar issue of Boomer interests dominating politics these days.
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  4. I'd wager the pandemic only made things worse permanently, as the survivors focus even harder on keeping themselves well and well off.
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  5. Modern dating culture and the apps they use are a product of the underlying socioeconomic environment. There's shrinking opportunity for upward mobility and less tolerance for mistakes of personal choices.
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  6. Seoul is overpopulated, the rest of the country is hungry for residents. Problem is Korea’s economic setup favors turning the whole country into a literal city-state centered around Seoul.
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  7. More like capitalism ruined everything, making living more expensive especially when having to support the 20+ years of net negative wealth per child.
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  8. Middle class is aspirational, but it's increasingly costly to achieve upward mobility and this suppresses the idea of supporting more children. Mere survival is a lot more manageable.
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  9. It's especially true with China and other export-led economies. The Smiling Curve model says manufacturing is the least value-added and most substitutable stage of production compared to R&D (valuable IP) in the beginning and Sales & Services at the end, which explains how whole nations can get stuck in the middle income trap.
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