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China parents buy AI clips of regretful single women to urge childless kids to marry (www.scmp.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life choices.

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[–] 164 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Shaming people into having kids works so well

They rush to have children who are then cherished and not resented

/s

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  • [–] 55 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    The one child policy really gonna be up there with killing all the sparrows long term...

    It was in place 45 years and only gone a decade.

    You can't just flip a cultural switch and expect them to become bunnies overnight. And that's not even getting into the economic part.

    Kids are fucking expensive.

    When workers aren't paid well, people stop having kids. That shrinks labor supply in a generation, workers can command enough pay to have kids, and population will stabilize.

    The wealthy hate populations dropping, because they have the luxury to plan ahead and know eventually it leads to more powerful workers.

    It's why it's a constant boogeyman and reproduction has been prioritized thru virtually all of recorded human history.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The one child policy really gonna be up there with killing all the sparrows long term...

    Except that killing the sparrows was a bad idea.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Getting rid of pests was the problem, and it was a real one...

    Killing all the sparrows was a legitimate attempt to help that backfired.

    Overpopulation was and still is a problem.

    One child would have theoretically been managed, but ignored how people act individually and the desire to have a son. An honest and legitimate attempt to mitigate a real problem backfired.

    I feel it's an apt comparison, even if I didn't explain enough at first

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah… the difference is that one (sparrows) was just a bad idea due to a total misunderstanding of the problem. The sparrows weren’t the pests, the bugs they eat were.

    The other (one child) is a good idea that was poorly managed due to unexpected cultural mores. Even so it would still be effective once people are “incentivized” to give up on the foolishness of prioritizing one sex over the other.

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