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Subject: Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:13:34 -0400
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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.

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.

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

pt