Would this reverse a country’s declining birth rate?
As someone who will never consider having children in this modern society (U.S.), here are some things that would change my mind if implemented. Will sound crazy but hear me out:
State+company sponsored income stability: 1 year government funded severance for layoffs, with safety nets.
Mandatory 32-hour work week, and here’s the important part, actual enforcement with heavy fines and perhaps even temporary shutdown of business if definitive proof of coercion or retaliation found.
Setting a ceiling for wealth gap. A smarter person than me will think of better solutions, but a thought starter- limiting the max percentage difference of net income (including all personal investment income sources) of a company’s richest executive and poorest employee, and limiting the max percentage difference of the richest 0.01% and the national minimum wage.
There is guaranteed temporary loss in global competitiveness, but perhaps talent brain drain through better lifestyle for the common person, and just outlasting countries with unsustainable population decline will lead to a new “American Dream. I know this is quite a stretch and I don’t nearly know enough about global politics to anticipate all the drawbacks, but it is what I personally need to see progress towards to consider having children, and I’m guessing it’s similar for many others.