The one child policy may end up being the elephant that broke the camels back. Now they have a large aging population dependent on a smaller younger population to take care of them, and nobody has the time or money to go get married and have families of their own.
Now to be clear, I’m not saying that China is doomed, but in the coming decades the average Chinese person is going to be feeling the squeeze until that aging population is no longer a concern. They will recover, but until they do their economy is probably gonna suffer to some degree.
The one child policy may end up being the elephant that broke the camels back. Now they have a large aging population dependent on a smaller younger population to take care of them, and nobody has the time or money to go get married and have families of their own.
Now to be clear, I’m not saying that China is doomed, but in the coming decades the average Chinese person is going to be feeling the squeeze until that aging population is no longer a concern. They will recover, but until they do their economy is probably gonna suffer to some degree.
Knowing China they probably will turn to desperate actions that seem totally crazy to the rest of the world
When you have over 1.4 billion mouths to feed, you gotta get a little creative with your solutions, I suppose.
Kill all the wild birds, that’ll do it…
The Chinese pension system for agricultural hukou is definitely with investigating