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Warpy

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1. He missed the core problem, an enormous pool of surplus men
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 03:06 PM
Aug 3

thanks to the one child policy leading to the starvation, abandonment, and outright murder of female infants since families traditionally wanted male offspring.

I don't know what China (and India, for that matter) is going to do about this, the usual remedy was to eliminate the surplus through starting a war, but that course of action has gotten too dangerous in the nuclear age. Maybe online AI girlfriends, maybe brothels featuring knockiff Chinese Real Dolls.

Their demographic time bomb is still ticking, although it's not quite as bad as it was during the rigid one child policy days. Note to Xi: if you want more of something (girls), subsidize them. If you want less of something (boys), tax them. It doesn't have to be permanent. It usually takes a few generations, but bad traditions generally die out among the majority.

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