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no… they canceled that

This shit is so easy to check before you click "reply" I have no idea why we can't be asked to spend several seconds on a basic google search before spilling whatever is on our mind. You can hate China for whatever reasons, but let's not share factually incorrect information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-child_policy

edit: why am I not at all surprised your mod history is filled with hate towards Asian people.

The solution is to pay workers enough so that the government doesn’t need to shift the burden of paying for children to those who don’t even have any.

I know you're banned, and this comment tells me a lot about why that probably happened without me having to dig through the mod history.

This is some pro-capitalism slop even if you think it's so far left it has tank treads. This is a surefire tactic to put a nation's healthcare in the same situation the US is in now. Without a total reform of the entire economic foundation of a country, you are simply NOT fucking getting a government who will tax their wealthy to keep up with whatever the healthcare system is charging for their procedures.

This is why healthcare is more complicated than lopping off the heads of the elites and spreading that money. We have to make systems that ensure no single person or institution is left on the hook for figuring out what to charge or pay.

You're right, falling birth rates are affecting people in rich and poor countries alike.

I think the answer is more complicated and has a lot to do with our collective psychology as a species, what we're consuming and what we're feeling about our futures.

That said, money and cost do play a huge role in this. People have complicated feelings on having families right now, and the barrier of cost is a great idea for the brain to seize onto as a validation for avoiding continuation of the species.

Sadly, when it comes down to it, children are necessary for society to function long-term.

It shouldn't be sad, this is basic reality. We should love kids and want kids and pressure our own countries to make it easier to have families.

I am really getting worried that the left broadly is turning soft anti-natalist and there is no faster way to end your movement than by not having more people. I feel like "birth rates" and "fertility" are terms that we feel have been co-opted by the right because figures like Elon Musk and the manosphere bros.

China is thinking long-term and practical. If they lose their young work-force it won't matter what those "other people" are doing or not.

Someone in China told me once that one of the biggest differences between China and Europe/USA is that in the west we think in terms of years or decades. In China they are making plans for the next several centuries.

This isn't a glowing endorsement of the heinous shit China has done, but it should at least make you understand that this isn't a social welfare program designed to help families as much as the first of many measures to fight the forces that are eroding the power and production capability of other countries. If you want to see how bad it can get, look into what the future holds for South Korea.

Just by asking this question, you have sent several on-duty cops to the ER with rapid heart rates and extreme agitation, well-known signs of opiate overdose.

Unidan? In MY lemmy?

I'm not policing shit, but it paints an impression that you might not be aware of if you care about people's impressions.

A lot of people get called "idiots" but that doesn't mean I can't actually differentiate who's really an idiot.

(There is a subtle subtext in this reply, see if you can catch it.)

We are a country of corporations and shareholders

FTFY

They want to broach it now "half seriously" so that in 4 months when someone makes another mean meme with Vance as a baby or Trump in a messy diaper, they can bring it up again and half the population will roll their eyes and tune out the actual bill they try to pass to control "memes."