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.

Good thing the government, led by the vanguard and guided by the Immortal Science, wisely choose to implement a one child policy for so long.

Or old people crying that their kids don't talk to them anymore because they were not kind to their kids.

Cheaper to just interview random couples.

what if being shitty to their kids is how they want to live ?

The fact that it's AI generated tells the kids that it doesn't happen in real life.

Out of curiosity, what is the second level upgrade or evolution?

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I imagine that Xi probably doesn't care all that much whether you're having mega gay sex, but I expect that he is very interested in whether you are also employing that dingus in ways more-conducive to sustaining future state output.

This is such an important distinction, tbh

no improve living conditions, only birth!

Would you respect your parents more of they paid actors and a cameraman to create the video instead?

Why do people pay for anything? So they don't have to make it themselves.

Not that I am disagreeing with your assessment, but I think low child brith rate is pretty universal in developed country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate

NYT put out a video 3 weeks ago covering a few guys that couldn't get women. The video says there's 30 million more men than women in the country due to the one child policy.

But that figure could be inflated

There must be a reason people don’t want children.

Yeah, kids cry and shit a lot. You don't need a reason not to want them, you need a reason to have them.

None of those reasons are why I decided not to have children. My reason is: my wife and I like to play computer 8 hours per day when we got home from work.

I believe China has too much housing right now. But the rest seems to be reason enough.

Don’t get carried away. The reason is the opposite of what you think.

Their birth rates dropped dramatically because they raised so many people out of poverty with socialism. But now capitalism demands that they generate more workers.

Pretty deep irony, because very recently they weren’t allowed to have more than one child.

from what i've seen they'd consider that a better outcome

Exactly. If the governmrnts dont want to put in the work to create a society that works for the workers? (the very fucking workers who ensure that things run smoothly in those societies...)

Then the workers have EVERY right to not produce more workers.