Humanity priced itself out of the market.
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Why pay though?
Why do people pay for anything? So they don't have to make it themselves.
It's AI generated, it takes two seconds
Most people don't realize how easy it is. Then it's also hardware intensive to do locally. So, they end up going to some service online that does it and they charge.
Some online platforms allow a few freebies.
Shaming people into having kids works so well
They rush to have children who are then cherished and not resented
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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.
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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.
~~Childless~~, child free.
This is such an important distinction, tbh
They're each trying to put their own spin on it, there is no actual distinction in the words, just in the subtext/implication.
The former implies it's a lacking of a necessary thing, the latter implies it's the avoidance of an unnecessary burden. It's completely subjective whether a child is one or the other to someone.
It's a broadcast of one's own biases to consider either of these terms more 'valid' than the other.
It's a broadcast of one's own biases to consider either of these terms more 'valid' than the other.
You seem to misunderstand. No one is saying one term is more valid than the other. They are different words meant to describe different people.
A person that doesn't want children, and doesn't have any, is considered childfree.
A person that wants children, but doesn't have any, is considered childless.
Since these parents are trying to convince their children to have kids, said children are clearly childfree, not childless. A childless person that wants children wouldn't need convincing
At the very least, if you're trying to persuade to have kids, people who have chosen to not have kids, those people are not childless, they are child free. Their will is to be without child. They are not failing at having kids, they are succeeding at not having them.
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My parents and extended family: "why don't you find a nice girl to [blah blah blah]"
Me: "haha yes I'll get right on that"
Me: having mega gay sex in addition to actively not wanting children, even if I was medically a good candidate to father them
Parents/extended: "I just don't understand"
Me: upgrades to ultra mega gay sex
Out of curiosity, what is the second level upgrade or evolution?
asking for a friend
Ultra Mega Gay Sex Pro Max FE Special Edition+
💦
I imagine that Xi probably doesn't care all that much whether you're having mega gay sex, but I expect that he is very interested in whether you are also employing that dingus in ways more-conducive to sustaining future state output.
Fight fire with fire. Time for the Chinese Kids to start spamming their parents with AI-gen'd videos of Men and Women regretting getting married.
Or old people crying that their kids don't talk to them anymore because they were not kind to their kids.
Cheaper to just interview random couples.
Worst than going to the hospital alone and spending old age alone is doing that after doing all the work of having kids. I will be alone and I'm taking care of that but I know people relying on children that don't give a fuck about them.
What ghouls. Let people live the lives they want.
what if being shitty to their kids is how they want to live ?
Parents (not being able to tell the videos are AI-generated): "See this? This will be you in 30 years if you don't get married and have kids very soon!"
Kids (able to see the videos are visit AI-generated): "Suuuuure!"
The fact that it's AI generated tells the kids that it doesn't happen in real life.
Nice to know the ungodly toxic, overbearing and boundryless parent is a universal phenomenon.
Why would anyone in their right mind bring a child into this chaos right now? Humans probably need a good ole fashioned hard reset. First we need to fix oil dependency and the climate. That's a start.
Chinese Nationalists are probably feeling more powerful than ever before. Imagine MAGA but worse, because their supreme leader has been around for longer and their party has been around for lifetimes.
How is life in China actually? There must be a reason people don't want children. I imagine work culture, bad pay, bad prospects, and inability to secure housing are top among the reasons.
Not that I am disagreeing with your assessment, but I think low child brith rate is pretty universal in developed country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
Yes, education is a big factor in reduced birth rate, but I doubt it's the biggest factor. If educated people lived in societies with good conditions for raising and bearing children, I imagine they would make the informed decision to get children.
It would take more than financial incentives I suspect. It's the time cost that is so demanding and it would likely require a restructuring of society that either results in people working much less hours, or a more community-based child rearing approach.
There must be a reason people don’t want children.
Yeah, kids cry and shit a lot. You don't need a reason not to want them, you need a reason to have them.
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NYT put out a video 3 weeks ago covering a few guys that couldn't get women. The video says there's 30 million more men than women in the country due to the one child policy.
But that figure could be inflated
None of those reasons are why I decided not to have children. My reason is: my wife and I like to play computer 8 hours per day when we got home from work.
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AI is a shit show.
Maybe work on fixing that 16% youth unemployment rate, think that'll work a lot better then showing them slop
Absolutely unhinged lol
china's long history of controlling their ~~citizens’~~ prisoners’ reproduction
Whack
Have a feeling this will backfire simply because comedy
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