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One thing the article doesn’t address is the number of white collar workers compared to blue collar, and the birth rate being less than 1, coupled with the insa
by philliphaydon 4y ago
One thing the article doesn’t address is the number of white collar workers compared to blue collar, and the birth rate being less than 1, coupled with the insanely high price of raising a child in China.
The crackdown on tutoring is to reduce the burdens on raising a child to entice people to have more kids, the reorganizing of the higher education to prevent white collar jobs in favor of blue collar jobs to get people working at the bottom again. And raising the birth rate to avoid an aging population that won’t have anyone to look after them.
- therealcamino 4y agoIt kind of does address those points: 'In curtailing private tutoring, the government seemed to have multiple goals: rein in unchecked capital in the educational system, relieve pressure on overworked students and parents, address the sluggish birth rate (under a premise that less money spent on tutoring would mean a greater incentive to have babies), and impose greater ideological control on students in general.' and ' In this new era, the government’s ideal young graduates aren’t joining hedge funds, flipping properties, or listing metaverse-related startups; they work in what Wang calls “the physical world” and proceed to “make babies, make steel, and make semiconductors.”'