• traveler01@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    In my country, some get a minimum wage from just being at home, plus they get a subsidy for each kid they have.

    While the working class gets only a small subsidy for each kid (the higher your income the less you get).

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      1 year ago

      But how high is the rate of unemployment in your country? In Germany it is really low, so it probably costs a working person only a few euros per month to support all children of unemployed persons. Not sure if it is worth it to not help these children as they are already severely disadvantaged. Not to mention it can be seen as an investment in these children.

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        1 year ago

        Now much, but people get basically a minimum wage from the state without any effort, so why work at all?

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          Incentivizing people to have children is pretty important for a society to continue on. Most societies are based around there being more young people than old people. When you reverse that, you historically don’t have enough people working to keep the country chugging along.

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          1 year ago

          You would be surprised how many people actually cost the state money instead of bringing in money via tax in some countries. The problem isn’t the few unemployed people who could potentially work, the problem is that wages between high earners and low earners are out of proportion.