Posted on 01/19/2024 12:26:29 PM PST by FarCenter
Let me suggest 5 major drivers:
1. Meritocratic civil service exams encouraged heavy investment in education. China institutionalised this first, but the system then spread across East Asia. Education became seen as the pathway for social mobility.
2. Education fever has spawned an arms race of intensive parenting.
3. Within China, fertility fell earliest in the more individualist northeast, where there is less onus on lineage.
4. Economic development has spawned cultural liberalisation, weakening pressure to bear multiple sons.
5. Given heavy expectations of parenting and cultural liberalisation, one child is increasingly seen as enough.
To understand all these interactions, we need to trace cultural evolution over the past 1500 years. Buckle up.
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Socialism, basically. Make children expensive and people stop having children.
After watching western videos, they realize their womenses are high pitched screechy things?
Socialisms spreads the costs of having children throughout society.
Capitalism, especially high-tech industrial and post-industrial services capitalism, burdens the parents with the cost of children.
None of the rest of the elective rationales matter by comparison.
>>The Pill.
Why didn’t it have the same effect in India and Africa?
They are still relatively high fertility areas.
Right. I had $200,000 taken from me, over my working life, to pay for the healthcare of liberals. That money, had it been invested instead, could have been worth about $700,000 and I would have earned about $30,000/year from that. Instead, I have nothing.
Do you want to tell me how I financially benefitted from paying for the healthcare of liberals? How much my costs have been alleviated because I paid for the healthcare of liberals.
What other lies are you going to tell me in this conversation?
Socialism does not make children more affordable. It dumps the debt that liberals like you have built up and are hoping to be dead before the bill comes fully due. You sold the children into debt bondage.
They’re gonna dump several hundred million feral Africans there over the course of the 21st century.
Dare you say forced abortions? or is that such an undiluted good that it can’t be mentioned in this context?
Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan have similarly low fertility rates and they did not have forced abortions.
They are still relatively high fertility areas.
First, you didn't indicate whether you mean Arab or Sub-Saharan Africa. Arabs are dedicated to having lots of kids, primarily for military reasons. Sub-Saharan Africa is still so poor that they have a lot of kids to assure some survive.
As to India, my guess (as in I don't know) is that in addition to the survivability reasons above, I doubt the pill is a widely available commodity among lower castes.
Nope. Japan did it first. China was still a shi'ite hole before Japan rose to earlier economic might.
Some sort of shot might have something to do with it!
but wouldn’t it get at least a sixth place mention?
Israel is the lone exception of a developed nation with a high birth rate.
“Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan have similarly low fertility rates and they did not have forced abortions.”
Also, Hong Kong, (South) Korea, and Japan have experienced rapid growth in per capita incomes. When incomes rise, especially among young-adult women, fertility generally drops.
That and soy products.
Socialisms spreads the costs of having children throughout society.
Capitalism, especially high-tech industrial and post-industrial services capitalism, burdens the parents with the cost of children.
Are you sure you are on the right forum?
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Aww, let him stay. I like to dine on liberals.
Too much soy for the boys?
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