Mr Khan said:
mrstickball said:
You know, China would have never needed the one-child policy if it wasn't for the stupidity of their government in the first place. Mao's Great Leap Forward artificially inflated birth rates so dramatically, they had to cull the population just one generation later. Additionally, the one-child policy will cause tons of issues with China in the very near future. Since the male/female birth rate has been so skewed due to the policy, there are tens of millions of men that will not have traditional relationships with women. The result has been more sex trafficking and kidnappings from neighboring populations to satiate demand for women.
Or in other words, its been one failure after failure. Comparatively, no modernized nation in the region has had to deal with excessive birth rates thanks to the free market's benefits for their respective economies.
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Nope. The most modern and capitalistic of them all, Japan, had to deal with pretty drastic overpopulation problems through the 20s and 30s. Overpopulation was partially responsible for their entry into WWII, since they needed or felt they needed Lebensraum, and also because the influx of poor, economically disenfranchised people combined with expansion of the franchise led to radicalization of the polity
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Japan wasn't exactly the shining example of capitalism pre-WW2.
@ OP
This is pretty disgusting. God only knows how many of these babies were actually dead when they decided to turn them into powder.
