Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

I dont really support this for important reasons, but won't gripe about it much.

The problem I have with things like this is, people shouldn't be encouraged to have kids due to monetary rewards in any fashion. And there will undeniably be some bad apples who will have a kid because of the money, when they otherwise wouldn't. Bad reason to have a kid. I feel bad for the kids.

However, I'd support it regardless even if I disagree with it conceptually. Although there will undoubtedly be some abuse of the system, there will also undoubtedly be many honest parents out there in situations where the money will be extremely helpful. So good.

Makes sense pretty close to subsidizing child birth. Great way to break the burden on lower income families with high deductible or no health insurance.

Cost of living keeps going up each year, especially for raising a child. Young folks are statistically waiting longer or opting not to have children. Statistically, you start making fewer babies than elderly dying off. At some point, if you don't anything, the "replacement rate" falls low enough so you're heading toward a demographic time-bomb.

Countries like South Korea and Japan have been fighting this realization for twenty years. They've tried all these steps, from appealing to patriotic duty, to creating official dating/matchmaking apps, to offering tax breaks and outright cash grants. The only thing that works is to import people from places with the reverse issue -- too many babies. But that is both a cultural and political hot-button issue. Don't really see any other way out.

Oh yes, too few humans being born, that’s our problem!

The meat grinder is starving. RIP

I would give anything for the US congress to pass legislation for 1 year of paid maternity leave (and some paid paternity/other parent leave as well).

But that might be seen as healthcare, and we can't have that. We must preserve the cruelty of the privatized, for-profit health system.