Bigger BHKs, Fewer Babies: Zoho' Sridhar Vembu on why birth rates are sinking due to 'sophisticated people'
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has raised concerns over declining birth rates, attributing the trend to modern privacy concepts. In a tweet on Saturday, he said, «The interesting observation is that traditional people who live in large family clusters and have no private space to themselves, produce babies. But sophisticated people who want and need and have plenty of private space to themselves do not produce babies.»
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Privacy and birth rates
Vembu suggested that frequent and close interactions with family and friends play a role in sustaining the motivation to have children. «The modern concept of privacy (unknown in my lower middle-class childhood) has undercut this drive to procreate,» he wrote. He further noted, «In other words, people who are surrounded by other people want to produce more people!»
Mixed reactions online
His statement received varied responses. A social media user named Lokesha countered, «This may be true for some remote cases, but as a new parent and surrounded by many such new parents, our major reasons for not having many babies is economics, affordability of education, healthcare, and good life.»
Vembu responded with his observations from rural India. «In the small village communities that surround me, people have no economic security (no stable income), health care is far away, schools are far away, people live in tiny
