• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    5 hours ago

    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.)

    • FlorianSimon
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      48 minutes ago

      It’s a reasonable explanation. But China is still one of the most populated contries on Earth.