A South Korean official was expelled from his political party for suggesting the country “import” Vietnamese and Sri Lankan women to boost the declining birth rate.
Kim Hee Soo, the governor of the southern Jindo county in South Jeolla province, was facing an uproar after his televised remarks last week triggered a diplomatic protest from Vietnam. Mr Kim was addressing a town hall meeting when he spoke about measures to address the country’s declining birth rate.
He said South Korea could “import young unmarried women” from places like Sri Lanka or Vietnam to be married off to “young men in rural areas".
That’s not the issue. Wealth became too consolidated. America’s baby boomers weren’t born for efficiency of labor hands. They were born because one person could work one full time job at most employers and afford a house, a car, bills, a few kids, and a vacation every year.
Now that’s not possible for very much of the workforce at all. Raising kids hasn’t gotten that much more expensive to raise in relation to other basic needs. It’s just that all those other basic needs tend to take up a lot bigger portion of your paycheck. People already struggling don’t want to add children to the pile of their struggles.
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