[unethical_ban]

>there isn't enough children to keep the country functioning

I wonder if some kind of mandatory civil service will become necessary. I feel in the US that many people are disengaged from the rest of their communities for numerous reasons, and it would be both a direct public service and a benefit to societal cohesion for all people to experience being a servant to their cities via public works.

[marssaxman]

How do you get from the resurrection of corveé labor to an increased birth rate? I don't see the connection. If anything, I would imagine that taxing people's time as well as their money would only make the burden of parenthood feel heavier.

[unethical_ban]

It wasn't directly about increasing birthrate, it was about dealing with decreasing birthrate.

If we have fewer people to operate society, we may need to conscript ourselves into being useful to the rest of our community.