- High female labour force participation rate
- High house price-to-income ratios
- Smartphones
- Cultural attitudes resulting from and leading to a high infidelity rate
- High female literacy rate
- Successful family planning program
- Rat-race/involution/neijuan labour market dynamics.
Basically, we tick every box. Hence, the world’s lowest TFR.
How much of Backrooms’ compelling atmosphere is the anxiety of growing up in an empire past its peak?
I don’t know, but the movie felt familiar. For context, a building I worked in for two years: