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China’s population declines for second straight year
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I think it's the "economy". We've set up systems where the young pay out the older people. At least that's my uneducated understanding of the situation.
However what's funny is that the economy under China (and most places in the world) is why people aren't having kids now. It's probably done more de-population than the one child policy.
Capitalism expects infinite growth, which is impossible and unsustainable.
It’s time for a new system. Feels like that time is now as it appears capitalism is slowly collapsing on itself.
I think it boils down to you need a lot of kids to run a farm due to the manual labor demands. You don't need a lot of kids to work in a factory or office.
economy definately has a major role in it. similar to a lot of western nations, there is a growing number of educated chinese people who have education in a market that isnt hiring enough for the roles that they acquired skills for. the lack of having enough higher paying jobs puts off people from having children, in particular for people who have higher education, as they are more aware of the costs attached to children.
it all boils down to not enough people on the lower 90% have enough funds to think about having children to support the (unsustainable) social security countries often have.
It's not even necessarily this, but that raising a successful child in China is obscenely expensive. There's only so many spots at Tsinghua/Beida. China has prided itself on its upwards economic mobility, but cultural pressures from that economic mobility are unsustainable.