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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (tranlation) Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-Mo
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:17:27 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <robertaw-430EF5.09484519032025@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>In article <vreqff$155k7$1@dont-email.me>,
> 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.
>> 
>
>Also, Quadi's Vat Girls (and some Vat Boys too). I have some doubts on 
>how well they could be socialized.

While childbirth is not exactly trivial, one requires far more resources
to turn the resulting infant into a functional adult. That's a detail
many pro-natalists prefer to ignore.

ObSF: Ethan of Athos. 

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