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minus-squareFlorianSimon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·12 hours agoGood luck telling people not to have kids. China’s tried that already.
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 hours agoYou don’t have to. Turns out, when you give women the option to not shove a watermelon-sized object through their hoohaws at an age when they’re not ready for it, many of them opt not to!
minus-squareFlorianSimon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 minutes agoAnd yet, people did not stop having babies, which is what the person that started this thread asked people for.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 hours agoCuriously, it worked too well. China is now desperately offering incentives to get people to have more children. (Okay, I’m just being glib. It’s not clear whether it was the one-child policy that was responsible for the birth-rate crash.)
minus-squareFlorianSimon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoIt’s a reasonable explanation. But China is still one of the most populated contries on Earth.
Good luck telling people not to have kids. China’s tried that already.
You don’t have to. Turns out, when you give women the option to not shove a watermelon-sized object through their hoohaws at an age when they’re not ready for it, many of them opt not to!
And yet, people did not stop having babies, which is what the person that started this thread asked people for.
Curiously, it worked too well. China is now desperately offering incentives to get people to have more children.
(Okay, I’m just being glib. It’s not clear whether it was the one-child policy that was responsible for the birth-rate crash.)
It’s a reasonable explanation. But China is still one of the most populated contries on Earth.