Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life choices.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      The one child policy really gonna be up there with killing all the sparrows long term…

      It was in place 45 years and only gone a decade.

      You can’t just flip a cultural switch and expect them to become bunnies overnight. And that’s not even getting into the economic part.

      Kids are fucking expensive.

      When workers aren’t paid well, people stop having kids. That shrinks labor supply in a generation, workers can command enough pay to have kids, and population will stabilize.

      The wealthy hate populations dropping, because they have the luxury to plan ahead and know eventually it leads to more powerful workers.

      It’s why it’s a constant boogeyman and reproduction has been prioritized thru virtually all of recorded human history.

      • Hawke@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        The one child policy really gonna be up there with killing all the sparrows long term…

        Except that killing the sparrows was a bad idea.

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          13 hours ago

          Getting rid of pests was the problem, and it was a real one…

          Killing all the sparrows was a legitimate attempt to help that backfired.

          Overpopulation was and still is a problem.

          One child would have theoretically been managed, but ignored how people act individually and the desire to have a son. An honest and legitimate attempt to mitigate a real problem backfired.

          I feel it’s an apt comparison, even if I didn’t explain enough at first

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            13 hours ago

            Yeah… the difference is that one (sparrows) was just a bad idea due to a total misunderstanding of the problem. The sparrows weren’t the pests, the bugs they eat were.

            The other (one child) is a good idea that was poorly managed due to unexpected cultural mores. Even so it would still be effective once people are “incentivized” to give up on the foolishness of prioritizing one sex over the other.

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              12 hours ago

              Well, you might not understand it, but you learned how to repeat it at least

              We’ll call it a win I guess.

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      9 hours ago

      Good thing the government, led by the vanguard and guided by the Immortal Science, wisely choose to implement a one child policy for so long.