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The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce
The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce
Authored by Felix Yang via the Mises Institute,
The total fertility rate needed to sustain a population is 2.1. Averaged over 2020-2024, South Korea's stands at 0.78, Taiwan's at 0.89, and Hong Kong's at 0.79. Mainstream demography still treats these as cultural anomalies, when they are in fact the terminal readings of a century-long experiment in administrative intervention.
The standard explanation blames housing costs, changing values, or the burden of raising children in a modern economy. Examined through the lens...
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