The article says they actually got rid of the one child policy in 2015 thinking it would change the decline, but obviously it did not work that way. It doesn't

The article says they actually got rid of the one child policy in 2015 thinking it would change the decline, but obviously it did not work that way. It doesn't seem like China is any different from other modern country in this regard; fertility is on the decline almost everywhere. I've become fairly convinced that it's the fall of religion that has precipitated it - the "Death of God" as Nietzsche called it. Personally speaking, the thought of working a 996 style job (that could be mostly bullshit) all my life does not really inspire much desire to have children to perpetuate that economic meat-grinder. It'd be nice to think there was something more to life, but it seems illusive.