Population decline policy meeting meme

This is a 3-panel satirical meme using the classic boardroom meeting format. The first panel shows a male meeting leader leaning over a conference table, asking attendees for ideas to fix declining population rates. In the second panel, two attendees suggest coercive, restrictive policies: one man suggests forcing women to get married, one woman suggests banning abortions. A third relaxed attendee suggests a supportive, worker-friendly policy: giving workers adequate pay, four or more weeks of paid leave, and supporting women who want to have children so they do not fall behind in their careers compared to men. The third panel shows the leader become enraged and throw the attendee who suggested the supportive policy out of a high-rise office window, while the attendee remains unbothered. The joke critiques how governing bodies often prioritize punitive, anti-women policies to address falling birth rates, rather than implementing accessible, supportive policies that make raising children feasible for working people.

This meme is a remixed variant of the widely used 'boardroom meeting where the reasonable suggestion gets the speaker thrown out the window' meme template. It was shared on the Reddit Meme subreddit via RSS feed, and was created using the Mematic mobile editing tool, as evidenced by the watermark at the bottom left of the image. The meme comments on common real-world discourse around solutions for population decline in many countries.