Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "How South Korea Is Running Out of Children" video.

  1. Considering that the only industrialized country that breeds above the replacement rate is Israel and mostly because of the orthodox community, which VisualPolitik takes such a dim view of, it's probably fair to say that nobody has a solution that works to end demographic collapse in wealthy countries. In the industrialized world, only the more right wing communities of orthodox Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons have higher birthrates. They view it as a religious imperative and tend to orient their communities towards having women employed in parenting. But these communities also tend to live outside of major metropolitan areas, where rising costs of living make the financial stability necessary for modern parenting increasingly difficult. The video suggests single motherhood as the solution to demographic collapse, but in the communities where single motherhood is most socially acceptable, it tends to increase the relative poverty of women in those communities and decrease social cohesion without having that great of an increase in birth rates. Most of Asia tends to have less equality between men and women than the west, and that definitely does not play well with well-educated and financially independent women who have choices their mothers didn't, but if improving equality between the sexes could improve birth rates, why are the Nordic countries also dying out? As VisualPolitik pointed out in an earlier video, the only place where early evidence suggests that falling infant mortality and rising standards of living have not caused the typical decrease in birth rates is in Africa. Whether this is Religion, Culture, or something else is hard to say. We also do not know that the trends will continue as development increases there. But it would seem that more questions should be asked about why the difference exists.
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