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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:13:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <vreqff$155k7$1@dont-email.me> References: <vrefoi$m2p$1@reader1.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:13:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="053807d1a7a4c1b60f0e9102360f5436"; logging-data="1218183"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ELbzAi5y+zIPZQ8LyrXwKC1rxHNoAvdM=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:n1nhL0kui7tR3B+wwWhqkH488Wc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <vrefoi$m2p$1@reader1.panix.com> Bytes: 2051 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