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  1. On 2/13/2024 at 3:07 PM, ChaiyaTH said:

    Young people nowadays have just enough money, to live a bit better life than their parents did, if they are a couple and both working without having kids. That is the entire reason they don't want kids as much anymore too, it is financially impossible, it basically means you have to get a baby + then ship it off to the grandparents. 

     

    They might start not living on mortgages, new cars, credit cards, iPhones, Japan trips, gifts, Shopee and dinners in the malls, as their parents did.

     

    I think they want to swim in the new narrative of the rich asian and find any justification for give up nothing.

     

    What do you think? 

  2. Low birthrate seems to be common with middle class societies. Asian people now have entered their consumerist, materialistic, individualistic, hedonistic era. You hardly want to sacrifice when your main thoughts are: buy car, career, travel.

     

    The only hope are the underprivileged classes, who are accustomed to sacrifice, but are unable to support their children because of the enormous increase in the cost of living, education and health care.

     

    A government that really wanted to reverse course should help people economically by providing an income from birth to the child (expendable only for food, education, health care). 

  3. 10 minutes ago, DonniePeverley said:

    4 million arrivals in January. Airports the busiest i've ever seen them since time began. 

     

    That would be on course to smash 50 million for the year. 

     

    No hand breaks now with all visas fees waves for China and India.

     

     

    There seems to be a raft of online content creators who are pushing this 'move to Thailand' nonsense too. Particularly from the UK on TikTok. Flat out lies how anyone can just come to Thailand and work, the supposed cheapness of the country ( it isn't), and how easy it all is (it's not that easy), and how the UK is a dump. Funnily enough none of them are prepared to give up their UK citizenship though. 

     

    I found it rather bizarre, until one of the guys on TikTok who pushes this whole narrative (it's cheap, move to Thailand), suddenly appeared at a mall event with officials talking about tourism. When he was asked if he was just promoting Thailand, he denied it. But it does feel slightly unusual and a whiff of adverts posing as 'amateurs'. 

     

    Anyways tourism is back in a big way. We had a great few years with relative peace, but that's all over now. 

     

    There's a new term in the village, you should know it, it's "influence for hire".

    It's a subliminal weapon, soft power ones, but still a weapon.

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