Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:13:34 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/19/2025 9:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
 
The Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments is a bold attempt to
address South Korea's negligible birthrate. In exchange for new
homes in an invigorating rural setting, certain conditions need
to be met.
 
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/babies-forever
 
Technically, not SF or even futuristic but sufficienty dystopia-
adjacent to be of interest.

>
If one agrees that demographic collapse is a real problem, then
eventually we're going to see governments addressing it.
>
On the dystopian side, one could see a ban on contraception, or
even worse, compelled childbearing.

Might happen ... for white people.

The people-in-charge believe in white replacement theory, after all.

I'm surprised no Republican anti-abortion law has exempted non-white
women. So far.

More acceptable would be making bearing and raising children
highly subsidized and promoted. Turn it into a viable and secure
career choice. This would be expensive, and perhaps funded by a tax
on the childless-by-choice.

That would require taxing the people who have money -- the 1%-ers.

It will not happen with Republicans in Charge. The same might also
apply with Democrats in Charge, of course. Not the taxing part, but
the money raised might be used for something else.

There's a zillion ways this could go, but I expect we'll see
something in the coming decades.

We /could/ accept the existence of illegal aliens, legalize them, and
profit from their labor.

But that would require recognizing reality, something Republicans are
currently definitely not capable of. The Dems are better off in terms
of recognizing reality (the obvious exceptions are clearly exceptions,
but MAGA is the rule for Republicans), but that doesn't mean they
would behave any differently.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"