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And that’s basically it!
My parents and extended family: "why don't you find a nice girl to [blah blah blah]"
Me: "haha yes I'll get right on that"
Me: having mega gay sex in addition to actively not wanting children, even if I was medically a good candidate to father them
Parents/extended: "I just don't understand"
Me: upgrades to ultra mega gay sex
Out of curiosity, what is the second level upgrade or evolution?
asking for a friend
it goes gay, gayra, gayraga, gayraja
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.
How is life in China actually? There must be a reason people don't want children. I imagine work culture, bad pay, bad prospects, and inability to secure housing are top among the reasons.
I believe China has too much housing right now. But the rest seems to be reason enough.
Parents (not being able to tell the videos are AI-generated): "See this? This will be you in 30 years if you don't get married and have kids very soon!"
Kids (able to see the videos are visit AI-generated): "Suuuuure!"
Shaming people into having kids works so well
They rush to have children who are then cherished and not resented
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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.
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.
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
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.
What ghouls. Let people live the lives they want.
what if being shitty to their kids how they want to live ?
AI is a shit show.
Nice to know the ungodly toxic, overbearing and boundryless parent is a universal phenomenon.
Why would anyone in their right mind bring a child into this chaos right now? Humans probably need a good ole fashioned hard reset. First we need to fix oil dependency and the climate. That's a start.
Maybe work on fixing that 16% youth unemployment rate, think that'll work a lot better then showing them slop
Absolutely unhinged lol
china's long history of controlling their ~~citizens’~~ prisoners’ reproduction
Have a feeling this will backfire simply because comedy