한국 Lemmy 커뮤니티 / Korea Lemmy community

ah yes the biggest concern i have when family planning is on public transit

Anything but making sure you have a healthy work life balance, enough free time and money.

I think they are suffering from a mistranslation of the English phrase: “running a train while on speed”.

How often do I have to explain it. To encourage breeding you need extensive financial incentives. for everything from medical bills to cost of living to education. Do government idiots even know how much kids cost in developed nations?

i think the logics off but i cant say im not a jealous american

I actually don't think their logic is that implausible.

Obviously, it's not about giving people more time for baby making.

But (just as an arbitrary example) if you're spending two hours per day driving to and from work, slashing that down to a single hour can massively reduce a family's overall stress level.

And "Less stressed people have more room in their lives for bigger families" is an equation that doesn't sound that dumb.

Obviously, there might be better ways to go about this. Or there actually might not.

There's definitely more impactful ways to improve people's work-life balance, but most of those aren't as easily implemented.

In an ideal world, they might have done extensive studies into why people don't have more babies, and then selected an efficient parameter to tune.

(As a rule, investing into public transportation will usually pay socio-economic dividends either way, as long as it's done at least halfway decently.)

In a less ideal world, massive lobbying by the very people profiting off this investment first might have been involved.

Overall, this whole affair has decent odds of becoming some sort of net benefit overall.

lmao how is this related...??