@return2ozma to Ask Lemmy • 8 months agoHow much longer do you think society has until the collapse and what will be the reason?message-square56arrow-up177arrow-down127
arrow-up150arrow-down1message-squareHow much longer do you think society has until the collapse and what will be the reason?@return2ozma to Ask Lemmy • 8 months agomessage-square56
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-8•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-square@betterdeadthanredditlinkEnglish1•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?