This has been a hot topic in the past two days. A well-known economist has advocated that the government print 2 trillion yuan every year to establish a fund to encourage childbirth.

In this way, in 10 years, society will have 50 million more children, solving the aging problem of low birthrate and making the future more dynamic.

I personally feel that printing and distributing money cannot solve the problem of low fertility.

Printing and distributing money often creates problems instead of solving them.

Before we humans invented money, we conducted transactions through barter.

After the invention of money, money became the medium of all exchanges.

And when this economist proposed to print more than 2 trillion yuan to provide subsidies, everyone's attention was on this money. Then according to the operation of our country or other countries where the government prints more money to provide subsidies, the picture was received

The effect is inflation, and money either goes to the stock market or to industries with high investment and high returns such as real estate.

A recent example is some Internet companies. Everyone in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen knows that rents in big cities will be very high. In order to reduce the housing burden of employees, these large companies will provide them with rental subsidies.

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When these large companies issue a housing subsidy of 1,000 yuan, the rent of these employees who rent houses will increase by 1,000 yuan, an additional 2,000 yuan. When the rental subsidy is provided, the rent increase is also around 2,000 yuan.

In the end, the money these Internet companies used to subsidize employees' rent went into the pockets of landlords.

Behind the "fertility problem" is the problem of resource allocation.

Although having more children will bring corresponding economic costs, these economic costs are mainly human resources.

For example, a child usually cannot go to kindergarten or daycare before the age of three, and needs someone to take care of it, usually the mother. In other words, the mother's care of the child is a one-to-one replacement.

This means that my mother has only three and a half years, or even more, to be separated from society and unable to work.

If it is a family of four, it means that the father in the family needs to support the whole family, and this does not include the above. If there are two or four elderly people, it will put a lot of financial pressure on the family.

In addition, various places have also introduced policies to extend the "maternity leave" for mothers. The extended leave can be extended to one month or even several months. This may seem like a benefit to women, but in fact it will increase the pressure on women in the workplace.

Nowadays, especially in today's enterprises, competition is becoming more and more fierce. If women are absent from the workplace for such a long time, it will make it more difficult for them to find jobs in the future.

Therefore, instead of printing money and issuing money, we introduce policies to reduce the pressure on women to raise children and their competitiveness in entering the workplace after giving birth, such as building more community nurseries and so on.