return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 months agoHow much longer do you think society has until the collapse and what will be the reason?message-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down127
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minus-squareintensely_humanlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoChina made the difficult decision to do one child per family, which was a decision a western society would never make. It turned out horribly for China. Turns out there’s a reason western cultures don’t make “the hard decisions” like that.
minus-squareWandererlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·edit-28 months agoTime will tell. India and places like that could have benefitted from a one child policy. But that’s not my point. My point was most countries avoid the difficult choices.
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months ago India and places like that could have benefitted from a one child policy. Those “benefits” come at the cost of a whole lot of dead baby girls though. Does that sound like a good trade to you?
China made the difficult decision to do one child per family, which was a decision a western society would never make. It turned out horribly for China. Turns out there’s a reason western cultures don’t make “the hard decisions” like that.
Time will tell.
India and places like that could have benefitted from a one child policy.
But that’s not my point. My point was most countries avoid the difficult choices.
Those “benefits” come at the cost of a whole lot of dead baby girls though. Does that sound like a good trade to you?