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>kids have basically gone from asset to liability Peter Zeihan said the same thing. we need kids when the majority of society works on farms. today's kids are
by MangoCoffee 3y ago
>kids have basically gone from asset to liability
Peter Zeihan said the same thing. we need kids when the majority of society works on farms. today's kids are more expensive and less helpful.
China is following the same path as the Asian Tigers (Taiwan, South Korea...etc.) and Japan as the Chinese got more wealth. Chinese are unwilling to have more kids plus the One Child policy works too well.
- biotopia 3y agoYou have it half correct. It's more like Chinese cannot afford to have more kids. There's a reason, as China got poorer the last 3 years, the birthrate dropped sharply China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty In his article for the business outlet Yicai, Li cited data from a 2021 research paper by the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, which placed the number of people living on less than 2,000 yuan ($300) a month at 964 million, or nearly 70 percent of the population. https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-people-monthly-income-2000-yuan-poverty-1856031 https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-...