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China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank. (www.businessinsider.com)
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  • China is one of the world's most unaffordable places to raise a child, a Beijing think tank says.
  • The cost of raising a child compared to GDP per capita is 6.3 times in China, but 4.11 in the US, it said.
  • The cost of raising a child is sinking China's already falling birth rate, the researchers said.
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If you're talking from the perspective of the survival of humanity, sure. However that's far enough out that much larger factors (like climate change related war and famine) are going to threaten human growth long before the global replacement rate is an issue.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh yes, I fully agree. As I mentioned in my first comment the birthrate decline isn't going to help us with any of the issues we're currently facing, it's just going to throw a bunch of new issues at us and most people don't even realise that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I think the distinction between our two perspectives is you are looking globally which blurs the lines and "smooths out" the problem a bit until everyone is experiencing problems, where I'm focusing on nation states. Some of which will be hit much much harder or much faster than other nations. Just a guess on my part, but the difference in countries feeling this could be separated by 3 generations or more. Some are countries experiencing it right now while other countries great grandchildren will be the first to experience it.

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