Now, it is said that it is difficult to have children, and it is even more difficult to raise children. From birth to adulthood, milk powder money, diaper money, extracurricular tutoring classes, tuition fees and other miscellaneous fees add up, making people overwhelmed.
Having spent the effort to get married, having exhausted the family's savings, and now facing the problem of having children.
So, in the distant future, what would happen to the world if only the rich had the right to procreate? What will the average person look like then?
The cost of having a child
Let's calculate how much it costs to raise a child to 18.
The cost of having a child can be divided into the following expenses:
The first is the preparation for pregnancy and pregnancy totaling 20,000. The nutritional care during pregnancy preparation and pregnancy does not add up to 20,000.
In addition, the birth of a child to be hospitalized and ask the sister-in-law, hospitalization of 10,000, plus the monthly sister-in-law of 10,000 a month, a total of 20,000.
Children do not wet diapers, 0.6 million a year, used to three years old, a total of 18,000. The cost of living for children, 18,000 per year, to 18 years old, a total of 324,000 are needed.
Children's clothes, 0.2 million a year, 36,000 in 18 years, tuition 160,000, cram school 80,000, medical expenses 36,000,
There is also a child marriage costing 400,000 yuan, including a bride price and a down payment for a motorhome.
Together, these amount to a staggering 1.294 million. I really don't know, I am shocked, there are many projects that are conservative estimates, and the actual cost will only be more.
Such a large amount of money is an astronomical amount in ordinary families.
If in the future only the rich can have children
Looking at the above bill, many people are estimated to be shocked. The cost of raising children is now far more than we thought.
Like when we were young, basically just make sure we don't starve to death. Nowadays, the cultivation of a child pays attention to quality, so that children can develop in all directions, and morality, intellect and physical beauty cannot be left behind.
In the distant future, it is possible that only the rich will have the right to have children. This situation has already happened in some developed capitalist countries.
The reason for the negative population growth in many countries in Western Europe is that ordinary people simply cannot raise a child. Although the government will give a lot of subsidies, tuition fees are free. However, there is still a need to cover the child's other expenses, such as extracurricular tuition, the study of artistic skills, and so on.
In the case of general education, the children of the poor can only attend free public schools, which are mostly "synonymous with poverty" abroad and are chaotic.
The children of the rich can go to private schools with rich educational resources, the children of ordinary people can only play with ordinary people, the children of rich people only play with rich people, and the gap between poverty and wealth is getting wider and wider.
In developed countries, a very large number of ordinary people are reluctant to have children, one is that after the family has an additional population, it will reduce the quality of life. Other ordinary people are reluctant to let their children repeat their poor lives.
The current situation is that the rich have more choices, can have many children, they can choose IVF, surrogacy, etc., their tricks, is unimaginable to ordinary people.
We look at Elon Musk, the world's richest man, who has had 7 children and has plans to have children.
Look at the Hong Kong rich Zhao Youquan, who married six wives and had 19 children in his lifetime.
So, in essence, the right to have children depends on the financial ability to have, and the stronger the economic ability, the more children will be born.
In summary, in some Western European countries, only the rich have the "right to have children", the rich have 3 children and 4 children, and ordinary people may not even have 1.
What if only the rich could have children?
With the increase in child support costs, if only the rich can afford to have children in the future, the situation of ordinary people will be very miserable.
I think everyone has seen the movie "Mad Max", the world is extremely short of water, people can only live in the desert, ordinary people can only live on the water given by the rich, let alone fertility, but the rich can have endless water, they have three wives and four concubines, wives and children.
Of course, this is only a story in the movie, and there is a high probability that it will not happen in the future.
However, with the increase of work and life pressure, more and more people are choosing not to have children. They don't have as much energy to take care of their children, because they have a hard time taking care of themselves.
In short, this is just a hypothesis about future fertility problems. Always keep positive, I believe that the problem will always be solved, the future must be an era when everyone has reproductive rights!