Happening in Japan as well.
The Chinese version of Facism (Socialism with a Chinese face) is failing.
This attitude is found here in the US.
My young niece just visited, and she is a “no kids, no home, no shit” kinda person.
She and hubby rent a tiny ‘efficiency’ apt, mostly for the full bath. They lived out of their van for years, worked mostly pickup jobs.
She works, part time, remotely, he bartends part time..
They are convinced that America has failed - not failing - but failed.
They await the Fall of Empire, which they see as ongoing, right now.
If you look at LA, San Fran, - hell, any big US city, they would be correct.
Shouldn’t that be two noes? After all, abolition of both family and of private property are core Marxist doctrines.
No, not Darwin.
The 996 working hour system derives its name from its requirement that employees work from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week; 72 hours per week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping
The “four nos” are functionally similar to the outcome likely for the growing percentage of LGBTQ+ youth in the US - except for the “no dating” part.
How a society arranges for a part of the population to reproduce and the rest to not reproduce is an interesting topic.
In looking back through family genealogy, I’m struck by the number of aunts and uncles who never procreated. Your family tree likely has a lot of dead twigs - the siblings of your ancestors who never left issue.
Indeed. The phenomenon of "young people in substantial numbers [ having ] adopted an attitude that's termed the 'four nos': no interest in dating, getting married, buying a home or having a child" is not just a Chinese problem. One finds something similar happening in Japan, as in Europe and even here in the states.
It extends beyond those "four" to such things as many young conservatives not wanting to enlist in a "tranny-officer" woke military, as to investors shying away from certain funds and paper assets to real tangible assets. It extends to saying "no" to Disney, Annheuser-Busch's Bud-Lite, Target "tuck-friendly" Pride clothing, and more.
While you cite "Darwin," I want to recall that Darwin, in the last chapter, did write about the laws of the Creator, as he capitalized it.
"To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual."
The "laws" very likely also involve economic behaviors. The young today look at the massive debts incurred by Western and Eastern governments alike, and seem to be concluding, "why bother?"
If this, then that. Consequences. Or in a more crass expression, sh*t happens. And is happening. As you say, "Darwin at work."
You can lead a horse to water.
Four No’s
Four Wants
Three I Can’t Be Bothered’s
A Few Maybes
Two GTFO here’s
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Perhaps the old one child policy really impressed on people that they shouldn’t have children? So attitudes of young people today are not geared towards marriage and family.
Isn’t it true that middle class Chinese people earn far less than middle-class Americans? If so that could help explain people thinking they have no shot at home ownership.
Perhaps many Chinese people are opting out of working hard for professional achievements, seeing no reason or hope of a better life.
Chinese society is extinguishing due to the four no’s. American society is extinguishing due to abortion, gender fluidity, and assisted suicide... different strokes for different folks.
“an attitude that’s termed the “four nos”: no interest in dating, getting married, buying a home or having a child.”
Ha! China has reached the end-stage of Western materialist societies, without ever actually being Westernized. Imagine that.
What Chinese 20 year old is brainwashed enough to be looking forward to a life of 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week (a.k.a. 9-9-6) for the next 40 years?