Move aims to tackle decline in use of contraception ‘because it costs too much’, says health minster

I have a real gripe with this kind of politics.

“The peasants are so poor they can’t even afford their basic necessities. Let’s take one commodity and subsidise it, but only for one certain group of people we’re targeting in the next election.”

They can look generous, but they don’t have to touch the overall problem. You could argue that subsidising one thing worsens the poverty, because it causes inflation in other products.

  • roastpotatothiefOP
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    3 years ago

    Yes I guess there’s that too. France has been very successful in “nudging” women to work fulltime and leave their children in childcare. It is normal in france for children 6 months old to be in childcare 9 hours a day. This is a good cultural shift, because it depresses wages.

    It also pushes up house prices, increases people’s stress, and gives people less free time to think and socialise and plan a democratic uprising (which seems to be a real national passtime).

    Encouraging contraception is certainly intended to have the same effect.

      • roastpotatothiefOP
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        3 years ago

        there’s definitely some controversial bits to my comment. which part do you say is debatable?

        i don’t think most parents would chose to put their children in childcare, if they could afford otherwise. it’s hard to know though. but they should be able to afford to chose, and they aren’t.