The birth ratio is now 1.3 per woman, and 114:100 male/female. Envision a large army and lots of old people.
Why a 3 child policy? Given the problem, why any limit? Limits increase the sex ratio problem.
I wouldn't be shocked if the CPC makes child-bearing mandatory.
People who don't understand dynamic systems shouldn't try to force them. They fight back.
As if Breitbart is going to have anything useful to say.
Small families are easier to house.
I wonder how John Larkin thinks that would work.
Of course John Larkin thinks that he understand dynamic systems. He exhibits his expertise on climate and weather here all the time, and he did a great job predicting how the Covid-19 pandemic would pan out.
Sometime John should read up on the demographic transition.
No it's not. One only has to observe for oneself what's going on. No one needs to rely on any "experts" nominated by the likes of you, Bill Sloman. --
"Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists."
- The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
Being single-party states usually dominated by a dictator-for-life, communist rulers do even dumber things than democracies.
Mao did crazy stuff. Backyard steel mills. Collective farms. Killing sparrows as enemies of the state. One child.
Why is an aging population a crisis, there? The average Chinese is significantly richer than he was 25 years ago while his expenses haven't increased much. Average American is poorer than he was 25 years ago and his expenses only go up.
China is _allowing_ couples to have three children it's not some requirement, the Brietbart article naturally doesn't make this explicit.
China hardly needs every couple to have three kids to offset some "crisis" of aging population it's had massive productivity gains in the past 30 years. And the overwhelming majority of Chinese couldn't begin to afford to provide for three kids. Hell probably 50% or more of Americans under 35 in 2021 couldn't begin to afford to provide for three kids.
Seems more like a ploy to keep the newly-minted upper middle class happy and dissuade any ideas about getting all uppity with the State.
All those old people still like to eat. And the young ones are lying flat.
One consequence of the one-child policy was that girl babies stopped happening. Twenty years later, those young men could not find a wife. Oops. A lot of young women were imported.
Nah. The basic bargain is that if you keep quiet, you'll get rich.
Remember, China has always been capitalist (ignoring that aberration from 1959), but has never been a Democracy of any sort. The head of the CPC now serves as the Emperor, and the Politburo is the ancient Imperial Court.
Joe Gwinn
That the relatively wealthy are now allowed to have three kids doesn't really help that so much, the female children of the urban middle class that can afford to support three kids so aren't running around marrying the male children of peasant farmers and laborers. You could always buy your way out of the one-child policy and there's never been a domestic wife-crisis among families with some cash.
Any more so than like Caitlyn Pennington-Wentworth with the blue and pink hair from Cambridge MA is moving to Abilene TX to settle down with a local dude who's a truck driver there like y'know, sometimes this happens.
Income isn't a measure of wealth! Income is income. You can have a significantly higher income than your counterpart working the same job did 25 years ago and still be in a worse financial position than he was.
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