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The problem is that China is still self sufficient. Huge country with a single timezone and great infrastructure and now has the expertise to produce for itself
by the_clarence 2y ago
The problem is that China is still self sufficient. Huge country with a single timezone and great infrastructure and now has the expertise to produce for itself and enough people to buy its own products. Sure there's going to be some instability but even then the dictatorship is helping in preventing people to go too crazy. There's a reason musk is pushing for babies: the US is mostly empty land with a few large cities.
- CAP_NET_ADMIN 2y agoMaybe they have one timezone, but there are multiple "China's"
- SmirkingRevenge 2y agoFascist movements usually crusade for more babies and venture into (futile) nationalistic pro-natalist policies to try and drive up birth rates. Sometimes they fully commit to eugenics programs. It's a thing. But there's a catch. Some kinds of babies are good and other babies are bad (in their view). They only want "good" babies. Trump's unconstitutional executive order targeting birthright citizenship tells you all you need to know about who they think the bad ones are. And though many have tried, no country has figured out how to meaningfully drive up birth rates with pro-natalist policies. There's only one proven way to get more babies and sustain economic growth when native birthrates decline: MORE IMMIGRATION. If immigration to the US continues apace, we surpass China's total population within decades and continue strong economic growth comfortably. If TrumpElon really manage to kill the golden goose, welp... it's been real.
- the_clarence 2y agoI don't get your comment. You are saying immigration is the solution to more babies because we haven't figured out yet how to make the local populace make more babies? That doesn't hold. You can't just say there is no solution to a problem because a solution hasn't been found yet.
- SmirkingRevenge 2y agoThat's not quite what I'm saying. First, I'm saying Musk's apparent interest in birth rates is best understood as a component of the neo-fascist, authoritarian project in which he's embedded himself, the likes of which we've seen many times throughout history, and is the kind of thing that often culminates in large scale atrocity. Second, I'm saying for anyone who is truly interested in driving population growth, the last thing one would do is inhibit immigration. Instead, you'd open the floodgates.
- pseudalopex 2y agoWhat is the relevance of a single time zone?
- the_clarence 2y agoEasier to do business across the whole country. It tells you how streamlined and organized a lot of the fields are across regions