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"Beijing has employed a variety of carrot-and-stick approaches to increase the birthrate, from labelling single women as 'leftovers' if they remain unmarried"
by safety_sandals 2y ago
"Beijing has employed a variety of carrot-and-stick approaches to increase the birthrate, from labelling single women as 'leftovers' if they remain unmarried"
Wow
- Qem 2y agoI wonder how worse this "subcritical humanity" problem must get before governments actually treat it like a real problem, instead of taking ineffective token measures like that.
- tuatoru 2y agoI think it's one of Iain M. Banks' "Outside Context Problems", a problem that governments cannot even see (other than as a labour shortage), let alone understand its causes or what to do about it. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
- andsoitis 2y agoI would reserve judgment lest the translation suffers from semantic drift.
- Our_Benefactors 2y agoThe translation is accurate