What do you think? Low TFR cause ppl work too long hours?
China demographics thread.
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People in Africa work hard in the open all day and live in small shacks, yet they have a bunch of kids each.
The problem with fertility is not working hours, housing, and other bullshit you hear, that is politically correct.
The problem is clearly women's emancipation. It is the biggest factor that decimates TFR, else is secondary.
The problem with fertility is not working hours, housing, and other bullshit you hear, that is politically correct.
The problem is clearly women's emancipation. It is the biggest factor that decimates TFR, else is secondary.
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Funnily enough I've just finished Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, sequel (35 years later) to The Handmaid's Tale. Maybe that's the answer. Anyone want to help me establish Gilead?
Chinese demographics doomer must see this.
Indian suparpowa demographics instead of producing the "dividend" produce more miserable and hungry people (16% and is rising recently, perhaps signaling growth above the carrying capacity). Meanwhile, China is on the EU and US level at 2% of undernourishment.
Meanwhile, Sub-saharan Africa is 22%, once again proving India is much closer to them than to China.
What is worse is when you apply this same metric to their (which should be their dividend), 32% of them were underweight and 35.5% stunted (short statute due to malnutrition in the first thousand days of a child's life) for their age. Child wasting is another metric:
The share of the population in extreme poverty is 13% India and 0.1% China.
If India can't improve the human capital of its already existing population, then what is the point of adding more of them in the mix?
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Lol at their 13% extreme poverty in India as well.
Not hard at all to conclude/find out that India's government is manipulating statistics (or might not be 'manipulating' the numbers, but quite simply have unrealistic/wrong assumptions around what people earn and what they need for like daily food etc.)
What the fuck? Describing "women's emancipation" as a problem is a major red flag.
It's a problem for TFR (that was the topic), not in general. I don't give a fck about women's emancipation (don't have an opinion), in a broad kind of sociological way you implied.
It's 2024 already. We are in a world where I can video call some dude halfway across the world on my phone in front of me in real time. Anyone whos been working has realized a lot of manual processes no longer need to be done since they are all automated.
The idea that India could just repeat China's trick in today's age shows a lack of proper thinking and just repeating the mentality of it worked back then so it should 100% work now.
No worries! The wording just threw me for a loop. Wasn't sure what you were trying to imply with that!