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#China #OneChildPolicy #PopulationGrowth

An entire generation of Chinese people grew up under the government's brutal one-child policy. The purpose was to limit population growth--which it did to great effect. Now the government is having a conniption fit because their policy worked. Did they not understand the full consequences of limiting growth? (IMO, not a bad thing.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/world/asia/china-birth-rate.html?unlocked_article_code=URF4Wet_bfcrLsPi85BTZmyDd-C89tWbD9fJFbE-o1-dQLqCKzrYuuQ0bBKI18yRE6Lqv3RsqFcFTJED1EGbcOyBKBmRl-6CnAgOTJtM-MErsAFc8vJdh848oOk4WODDkw7GxC_hKumJoOHPO97mDRZ0SIG_ZotfBAYj5IH2bBYfaM1hhaYgi_hmOcWeQIxjUCXIAa-tZdlaSC1h30wa3aiB6JWuGoU_vJFSUxtDB9h9rfZz_K7BtuNZlT0hMCX8anNObAupqJ9lhnpaBkPZgklKjQM5w8DvCZcVEiMWGxUdGFejdBCTeZmkBnPEDe4W9RnoDyEoO5PrfX9Klg&smid=url-share
#China #OneChildPolicy #PopulationGrowth
Tofu Golem
Tofu Golem  
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We spent 4 decades shifting economics to make young people poorer, so now young people are having fewer babies because they can no longer afford to raise children, and now the very people who pushed those economic policies are freaking out because there are fewer babies being had.

Japan did the same thing a decade or two earlier, and we couldn't be bothered to learn from their mistakes.
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