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Hunh. China has its own Boomer problem. The parallels are interesting. Fascinating.
by at_a_remove 5y ago
Hunh. China has its own Boomer problem. The parallels are interesting. Fascinating.
- llampx 5y agoI would think that the people currently having kids are the boomers in China, because they are the ones who benefit from the wealth being generated today the way boomers in the US and western Europe did in the 50s and onwards.
- khuey 5y agoIn terms of political and cultural impact in the United States the defining characteristic of the Baby Boomers is not the wealth they grew up with but their sheer number.
- pessimizer 5y agoTheir number was a result of their parents' wealth.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoTheir number was a result of a post WW2 boom. In China the boom was even more so since a lot more people were lost in the war, then the civil war, then the Korean war, and then famines in the 1950s.
- khuey 5y agoAnd then the one child policy which shrank later generations.
- wolverine876 5y agoWealthy people tend to have fewer children.
- llampx 5y agoYep, and this can be extrapolated onto societies as well. Richer societies have lower birth rates than poorer societies. They balance it out somewhat with a longer average lifetime though. I think the boomers were overall wealthier than the Greatest Generation and that's also why they had fewer children.
- peterburkimsher 5y agoShall we call their boombox a Boomer box?