Im Land mit der weltweit niedrigsten Geburtenrate werden mehr Hundebuggys verkauft als Kinderwagen

https://fortune.com/2024/09/09/sales-of-dog-strollers-outpace-baby-strollers-in-the-country-with-the-worlds-lowest-birth-rate/

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  1. Details from our reporter Chloe:

    * Countries across the globe are facing population declines—as health journal [Lancet](https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/lancet-dramatic-declines-global-fertility-rates-set-transform) predicted, 97% of them will eventually have fertility rates too low to sustain their size.
    * South Korea is one such country, with a fertility rate that’s dwindled to the lowest in the world at 0.72 as of 2023.
    * Households with pets rose from 3.5 million to 6 million from 2012 to 2023
    * In 2023, dog stroller sales outpaced those for babies. It’s shaping up to do so this year as well.

  2. So much for more fantastic k-pop music in the 2040s. Woof.

  3. With 8.2b ppl on earth no country has a negative birth rate. Anything over 0 is too much.

  5. Very curious given S. Korea’s ban on eating dogs doesn’t take effect until 2027.

  6. Rent is $1400 and jobs pay $9 an hour. The fuck they expect?

  7. What about cat harnesses? That’s gotta be the equivalent right?

  8. Why does a dog need a stroller? Except for maybe old dogs.

  12. I don’t really get why dog strollers exist. Don’t dogs need to be walked for exercise and to burn off some energy? It seems like a stroller would be counterproductive.

  14. Barring medical reasons (besides fatness), what reason does someone have to put a dog in a stroller?

    Has anyone ever seen a medium/large dog in a stroller? That would be hilarious.

    On the inside, I feel ashamed for someone when I see them with a dog stroller. Your little, untrained, yippy ankle biter should walk. Maybe it’ll tire them out and they’ll stop yipping.

  15. Holy shit. Wait wait wait. So if you make a no kid no pet policy what would happen

  16. Is there anyone more tedious than a dog person with a dog stroller?

  17. I saw this when I was in Korea. I like dogs too but I don’t treat them like they are my baby. I saw so many strollers with dogs in them in Korea

  18. The older generation is too greedy. Korea tries however appartments are too expensive and working hours are too long in a career where you’d make enough money to support a family without being poor

  19. Making 75k a year and cant afford to not have a roommate let alone add one that just mooches off me

  21. I cringe inside when I see people with dogs in a stroller. Like why????

  23. I just always stand in awe of a world that just routinely fucks the middle and lower class over and over again only to clutch their pearls and say “and they won’t have children”.

    Like no shit people held off on kids on a long term basis. I’ve never really wanted children so it works well for me and my partner.

    Watching couch fuckers like JD Vance talk about cat ladies and just the open disdain for people who don’t want or can’t afford a child is wild. Even if it leads to a demographic collapse, there is a small part of me that says “let it rot” if this is the system we’re holding up.

  25. Honestly…. And hear me out…

    A smaller human population might be good for the planet?

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