Perhaps the low birth rate is just a natural phenomenon ?
Cant do anything about it.
Singapore is just too crowded, it is too densely populated.
Just take a look around you.
If you go to city, or any "public area", the situation is
such.
Even for housing, the size of housing is getting smaller and
smaller. Some small apartments can just allow you to move your
butt.
Move butt from bed to chair, and walk to door. Very small.
Anyways if we look at the principle of supply and
demand.....since land suppy is limited and finite, finally when the
upper limit is reached and the reams have been filled....where else
can the people go to ?
So isnt it natural that property prices are getting more and
more expensive, and thus limit people's purchasing power, and
therefore place a constraint on people's plan for marriage and
child rearing.
Seems like there is nothing can be done about it.
It is a natural-COE.
I suppose our generation for the current time is the shrinking
generation. We need to shrink until we reach more sustainable
level.
Maybe instead of fighting it, why not think of ways to
ameliorate or smoothen the negative shocks from the shrinking
process (such as pension problems, etc).
Maybe this is healthy and is meant to be.
