2y ago

China population: 2023 births could plunge by a quarter from record low set last year, academic warns

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Will China’s 2023 births plummet to 7 million? Academic warns it’s possible

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Not surprising. Bringing an innocent child into this doomed world isn't exactly the best idea.
- That's my opinion about having children. I'm not gonna bring another human to this cursed world
  
  Yep. Bad for the child, bad for the world. Too many of us already, way too many, and there's absolutely nowhere else to go.
It will be just a matter of time until their goverment makes "producing" children mandatory because it will be declared a matter of national security. Or more like, a matter of the Communist Party's security.
- Its not children the CCP wants, there are tons of families in China producing children.
  Unfortunately they're not Han children :(
  
  The only conversion therapy China is interested in. You will be Han, and you will like it!
  
  Ah yes, the country that had for decades exempted minorities from the one child policy only wants Han children. Where do you people get this from?
- If Romania is anything to go by it would flop horribly
"warns"??? Why are low birth rates always reported as a horrible thing? This world needs fewer people!
- Basically an aging population makes it hard for a country to find replacement workers for its economy, which results in stagnation. Takes more than a couple of bad years, though.
  
  That's true in extreme circumstances but we're no where near any threshold for having a lack talented people willing to work for a fair wage.
  I can't recall the exact timeframe but the world's population has doubled in the last few decades. I'm not advocating for removing anyone but if we could slow down the making of new people that would benefit everyone.

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