Despite some positive effects from the drop in house prices, many are calling for stabilizing house prices to revive the property market.
Have you noticed that there are more serious problems than the sharp drop in house prices that seem to have arisen quietly?
1. The birth policy has been continuously relaxed, and fertility has been continuously encouraged, but the total number of births is decreasing year by year.
Although the government has been relaxing the birth policy and trying to encourage everyone to have more children, the number of births has continued to decline. The reasons behind this are actually quite complex, and the effect is not immediately visible from a simple policy change.
The life of modern young people is really stressful. In many big cities, housing prices are high, the cost of living is high, and the cost of raising children is very expensive. For example, everything from children's education to daily food, clothing, housing and transportation is not cheap. Such financial pressures make many young couples afraid to decide to have children easily.
Many young people value personal development and quality of life, and they may be more willing to invest in their education and career rather than taking on the responsibility of raising children too early. In addition, women are increasingly involved in the workplace, and their professional pursuits and personal self-fulfillment needs have also made them more cautious about childbearing.
In addition, the concept of marriage in modern society is also slowly changing. More and more young people are choosing to marry later or not at all, which naturally affects the fertility rate.
2. The recruitment of some jobs is more selective than finding a partner to marry.
Really, some jobs are now set to be more selective than finding a partner to marry, which has reached a bit excessive. Many job advertisements are ridiculously demanding of job seekers, as if they were looking for an all-around superman.
Many companies have very strict requirements for academic qualifications, often requiring a bachelor's degree or even a master's degree. But that's just the beginning, they often require years of relevant work experience, a variety of professional skills, and sometimes even very specific project experience. For example, not only to be able to do market analysis, but also to be proficient in various data analysis software and understand the dynamics of multiple industries, these requirements come together, which is simply unattainable for many people.
Take a look at some of the other additional requirements, such as multilingualism, excellent communication skills, leadership, and even good looks and temperament. Such criteria are too harsh in the mate selection market, let alone finding a job?
Companies naturally want to recruit the best talent, but this expectation of "ideal candidates" often ignores the potential for talent to grow. Not everyone is born an expert, and a lot of skills and knowledge are learned and accumulated on the job.
3. As the requirements for girls to marry continue to increase, it becomes more difficult to get a wife, and some people live to be the last generation of their families.
Looking at the current marital status, it is indeed a little helpless. We always say that men and women should be equal, and modern marriage should be two people building a new family together, supporting each other, and advancing and retreating together. After getting married, many young couples do not live with their parents, and most of them choose to rent a house and live their own small life.
Even so, there are still many girls who feel that marriage is a big loss, as if marriage is entering the man's home, and they have to revolve around their in-laws every day, and they have to worry about having children.
In this way, the threshold for marriage is getting higher and higher, and the bride price, car, and house are all indispensable. Think about it, if an ordinary young man in his twenties and thirties does not have the financial support of his parents, how can he afford to raise so much money to meet these requirements with his own monthly salary?
It's no wonder why some young men now feel that they can't afford to get married, and they are simply forced to be the last generation in the family.
Then again, this phenomenon is really worrying. Marriage is supposed to be the beginning of life, not the accumulation of burdens. If young people give up on marriage because of these pressures, the future of society will certainly not be optimistic. We really need to rethink how to return marriage to two people working together on an equal footing, rather than a bottomless clue from one party to the other.
4. In the past, I was so poor that my parents could bring five or six children, but now that my life is better, I have one or two children, but many children can't take them.
Think about the past, although the conditions were difficult, every family had several children, and parents were able to bring up all the children. But now, although the living conditions are much better, many families feel that raising one or two children is enough.
The cost of education is a big one, and from kindergarten to university, the cost is constantly rising, making it difficult for many families. Not only that, but modern parents also face the pressure of work, the fast pace of life, and the fierce competition, making it difficult to have as much time and energy to take care of their children as they used to.
Modern conceptions of parenting have also changed. Today's parents are more focused on the holistic development of their children, from learning to interest classes, from mental health to physical exercise, all of which require a lot of time and energy. This is very different from the simple "clothes to stretch out your hand, food to open your mouth" before.
Although the material conditions of life are much better now than before, the challenges of raising children are also much greater. This is not to say that the current parents are not capable enough, but that the social environment has changed and the requirements are higher. What we need is more support systems, such as more reasonable parental leave policies, more community resources, and more reliable education guarantees.
5. Originally a large amount of wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, and as a result, a large amount of wealth continues to flow to those who are not short of money, so isn't it more difficult for the poor to turn over?
The inequality in the distribution of wealth is indeed a big problem now. A lot of money is concentrated in the hands of people who are already rich, and it looks like this is continuing. In this way, it is indeed becoming more and more difficult for ordinary people to turn over and improve their living conditions.
When most of their wealth is controlled by a few, they have more resources to further increase their wealth, such as by investing in high-return projects or using their influence to change the rules to their advantage. This has led to the so-called "rich getting richer".
Ordinary wage earners or low-income earners have little chance of changing their situation. They face a high cost of living and limited opportunities to make money, which makes it difficult for them to build wealth. Not to mention, access to basic services such as education and health is often limited by economic conditions, which further exacerbates the gap between rich and poor.