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rob05c  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the world economy as we know it is about to be turned on its head

    China will face a double hit, thanks to the legacy effects of the one-child policy

Economically, I never understood the one-child policy. Sure, feeding a billion people is hard. But curbing your population because you don't want to feed them, in a labour-based economy, is like burning cash because you don't want to deal with finding a storage locker for it.