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Wasn't there an article a week or so ago about China's one child policy, and how there wouldn't be enough workers to take care of the older generation? Well...
by jqm 11y ago
Wasn't there an article a week or so ago about China's one child policy, and how there wouldn't be enough workers to take care of the older generation?
Well... which is is? Too many workers or not enough workers?
- adventured 11y agoChina has a billion too many workers presently. They have ~500 million farmers, with nothing else to do than pretend to be farmers, held in a form of land slavery because there's nothing else for them to do and nowhere else for them to go (and they're not allowed to own the farming land). So China intentionally retards the progress in farming, keeping their productivity extraordinarily low. If they changed course on farming productivity, China would rapidly find itself with hundreds of millions of unemployed farmers (the US needs 3 million farmers / farm workers to feed 400 to 500 million people; China is using ~500 million farmers to feed 1 billion people). This issue likely terrifies the central government.