So I’ve tried Mastodon, Pixelfed and didn’t like them. Mastodon is nice if you wanna ”tweet”, but that’s not for me. Pixelfed was dead.
I quit Meta because of tech bro fascism, and hated Twitter even before it was X because, let’s face it - nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of a Twitter conversation (I know I’m exaggerating, to get my point across). I was in Reddit for a few weeks, and the conversations there seem mostly friendly and constructive, but I decided I don’t want to have anything to do with social media corporations. Besides, I noticed I could scroll endlessly. And that’s not good for me.
Lemmy seems nice. There are still some topics I’m interested in that don’t have active communities, and I’m still learning on how to have my feed from multiple instances. But still, this is the way to go for me.
Against algorithms, against fascism, for free internet. Thanks for coming to my boring Ted talk and have a nice day.
In my eyes, being adequately supported means not having any financial difference between having vs not having children. If that would be the case, there wouldn't be a financial incentive to not have them.
If we go above that (incentivise parenting even more), it's just throwing money at the problem in hopes it will go away. If someone will only have kids if they'll be rewarded on top of having extra expenses covered, they are basically parenting for money and this won't end well.
As per taking advantage of the social system - the more people overclaim something, the better the regulations become. There could be a certain ceiling on the types of support that could be taken at the same time, for example. As per unemployed folks living on subsidies - unless they have a valid reason they can't work (and there are those), they should get mandatory public employment if they stay in the unemployed status for a while - one that would respect their disabilities and limitations, if there are any, of course.
I'm literally going to financially reward my wife for taking time off work in order to take care of our kid.
Parenting is labour. When you're parenting, you can't be doing a different job.
My wife's parents in Indonesia don't have a pension much. It's barely anything. Her mom just gets money from my wife and her 2 sisters.
That's how it used to be for a long time, pension is relatively new.
So in the vast majority of history, parents always were financially rewarded for having children.
Median age in Indonesia is 30, while in Belgium it's 42. While we're far wealthier in resources. People just stopped having children because it wasn't necessary anymore.
We can't act like this isn't a problem, unless the people that willingly caused the aging population issue take full responsibility and go through hardships in order to help the society battle a period of low work force.
That's you, but it should be on the state level so that every parent is given everything to make parenthood go smooth.
People got used to comfort and are not willing to sacrifice their standards of living for having children, especially through a recession. Make them feel secure about their present and future - and birth rates will grow.
Aight, I agree it's better to give positive help at one group instead of trying to punish the other.