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by epicureanideal 1342 days ago
> People in China are just people, right? Many of them don’t want to have kids. What’s the government gonna do?

See the Cultural Revolution and Great Famine etc for examples of what it can do. Basically anything.

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> See the Cultural Revolution and Great Famine etc for examples of what it can do. Basically anything.

Even assuming China is all powerful and can achieve "anything" here, the policies would still have a latency of an entire generation. Unless you include time-travel as part of "anything".

Killing people is much easier than making people raise babies.