China offers parents $1,500 in bid to boost births
Parents in China are being offered 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of their children under the age of three in the government's first nationwide subsidy aimed at boosting birth rates.
The country's birth rate has been falling, even after the ruling Communist Party abolished its controversial one-child policy almost a decade ago.
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Make it per month and until the kid is 18 years old, not 3 years, and many will jump at the opportunity. And that would be a lot closer to the real cost of raising a child. The red pill crowd even seems to assume women would see that as a whole career. Oh, the government can't afford that? Then I guess having many children is not economically viable and population shrinking is the only way to go.
Germany does about half of that (255€ per month and child until 25 or until the child finishes their education) and still birth rates are in the gutter
The cost of living is much higher in Germany and even "half of" enough would still be considerably less than enough.
Yes, it's about two- to three times as high. I realized I messed up in my original comment, tho:
255€ a month, vs 500ish$ a year. That's several times more (and still not enough), and it lasts until the child is grown up, not just three years. This will not have an impact on China's population crisis
I am once again asking countries with low birthrates to increase immigration.
But what about the racism?
Racists can go to Russia. I heard they have a lot of space in their country.
And, oddly enough, racists moving there dont seem to take up any space.
This need a picture of great wall with transparent xi floating head and a quote that say "git fucking"
Brilliant!
"China attempts to trick the poor and uneducated into reproducing"
That doesn't even cover a month of childcare
In US I assume. How much does childcare cost in China?
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-childcare-costs-among-highest-world-think-tank-2024-02-21/
This article talks about cost "relative to its GDP per capita." In the proposal they give flat sum of money. So we are comparing Apple to oranges. Not saying you're wrong, but I still would like to know how much is daycare per month in China. I know in us I pay 2k per month. I doubt it's the same there.
So they get compensated about quarter of their yearly expenses with this btw bill. If they had an equivalent of this in us I'd get about 6k yearly from gvmt for each child. Not too shabby in my book.
Gearing up for the future wars. Need as much man power as they can get!
The best time to begin replacing your dead soldiers is before you start feeding them into a meatgrinder.
Band aids, band aids , who doesn't love band aids?
1500$ is like diaper budget for a month
I sincerely hope that's an exaggeration, but I did call it a bandaid for a reason.
What are you feeding that thing?!?
Ooo you could buy maybe MAYBE buy a months worth of baby supplies on that. Cool. Yeah. That'll fix everything wrong with everything.
Maybe this will stop Chinese tourists from holding their babies over trash cans, so they can shit into them….
Because, really, it really seems that what the Chinese could use is diapers, and the training to use them.
Pardon?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chinese-toddlers-babies-diapers-open-pants
I get your shock and confusion. The first time I thought, I was also shocked and confused.
Why the hostility? Or have I misread your comment?
I simply asked what you were referring to? Thankfully, someone else posted the reference...
What a weird interaction.
Thanks for doing me a favor, I guess.