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In China, having large families in the 1950s/1960s was a deliberate policy decision, which is how they ended up being a billion-plus today. (Which was then foll
by trollbridge 2y ago
In China, having large families in the 1950s/1960s was a deliberate policy decision, which is how they ended up being a billion-plus today. (Which was then followed by a one-child policy to try to correct that, since the number of people in China exceeded the amount of arable land to support such people, and once Mao Zedong was out of power, smarter people decided "hmm, it's going to be a big problem if we get to 3 billion people".)
- jtbayly 2y agoAnd now smarter smarter people realize they are facing a major problem from the one child policy.
- themacguffinman 2y agoWhat was the large family policy? I know about the one-child policy, but I don't think people needed a policy to have large families, it used to be the norm back then even outside of China.
- trollbridge 2y agoIt was part of the Great Leap Forward. See "Background" under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy In short, Mao Zedong thought that having a big population would lead to a stronger state. Keep in mind this is the same guy who declared war on sparrows as being "capitalist birds".