Meanwhile there is s very high youth unemployment, so not much people afford to start a family. It probably doesn't help when materialism is a big part of the culture so giving up stuff for kids isn't the first reflex.
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If the Chinese Communist Party having an unemployment problem isn't proof they're liars, I don't know what is
Having not learned their lesson they continue to meddle in people's sex lives.
They need more slaves for the manufacturing meat grinder.
China has a pretty substantial demographics problem. Like, I'm not saying that this particular policy is the way to handle it or that it's effective, but it's very probably going to have a lot of unpleasant effects if they aren't able to turn it around. You'd expect them to be trying to do something about it.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2024/
Their 50-54 age cohort is about 120 million.
Their 0-4 age cohort is about 50 million.
They currently have 1.4 billion people.
The UN projects them to have 633 million people in 2100.
If you want to have elderly people retiring and working-age people supporting them, then your ratio of retirees to working-age people going way up is going to create some pretty serious issues. Do you just have increasingly-decrepit people work until they go? Tax the working population a lot more? Slash the standard of living for the elderly? All of those are going to seriously suck for at least some portion of the public.
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https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-chinese-pension-system-and-why-are-its-problems-hard-fix
Tbh I think if any country is positioned to overcome demographics problems it's China. They have all of the manufacturing infrastructure and investing heavily into robotics and low maintenance systems. So I really dont understand such a stupid political move. As if 0.1$ more expensive condoms will start creating babies. It almost feels like a big show of control to people rather than anything tangible.
They have a point, you can't train an army when there aren't people joining the army, you can't manufacture when there aren't people in the factories.
At least they are trying to address the birth ratio problem of the modern world, so different to the west where the agenda is planning to just the upper 10% can afford to have children. I mean who will want to reproduce with all these weird ideologies being preached.
They could always open their borders to immigrants… Except no one wants to live there and they are so racist
I recently heard the opinion of Dan Wang that the USA and is a country governed by lawyers, and China is a country governed by engineers.
This tracks.
It's almost comical (if we weren't the ones living in it) that our governments seem dumbfounded that people don't want to have kids when every part of raising children is extremely expensive.
It"s not an engineer-coded action tho. It's more of a authoritarian-signal coded one.
Engineers wouldn't just jump to "then make option B more expensive than option A". It takes some rich fuck oligarchy bullshit to say "why make option A affordable when we can make option B more expensive?"
Aww, is some government suffering from the misguided one-child policy?
The pendulum swings, I suppose.