Scott Adams told the Washington Post in a story published Monday that he'd lost 80 percent of his income as a result of his quote about white people leaving Black communities because of Black hostility. He insisted then that he's against racism.
***
The States shown in Blue above Have A Smaller Population Than Los Angeles County
***
Children’s horror author R.L. Stine has accused his publisher of editing references to weight, mental health, and ethnicity in over a dozen of his books without his permission.
***
Another Visit to the Church of Unintended Consequences
At some time, the people of the world are going to have to look at their so-called leaders with a lot more skepticism.
China is scrambling to facilitate a baby boom and reverse its stagnant birth rate, as the country has fallen into a population crisis of unprecedented proportions.
From 1980 to 2015 the country implemented a brutal one-child policy, which restricted the vast majority of Chinese families from having multiple children — for fear of overpopulation.
The policy, which often relied on forced abortions and sterilizations, was hugely effective at slowing population growth, but created a slew of cultural, economic, and social setbacks.
Because of the cultural preference for male children, millions of families aborted female babies with the hopes of making their one child a son who could carry on their family line and provide financial support down the road. That contributed to China having the largest gender disparity of males to females of any country on Earth — for much of the early 2000s, for every 100 Chinese girls born, 130 boys were born.
Now… China has 30 million more young men than young women, creating a crisis of young men unable to find wives. This is worse in rural areas where women have left for better jobs in the city. There have been reports of Chinese farmers raiding neighboring countries for women.
In response, the parents of many young women in the country are demanding enormous dowries in exchange for marriage, while the scarcity of potential brides has forced many Chinese men to leave the country in search of a wife.
The average Chinese woman went from having 6 children in 1970 to 3 children in 1985, then fewer than two children by 2010.
In 2016, in response to that decline, the CCP abandoned the one-child policy and raised the limit to two children per couple. When that didn’t lead to any sort of meaningful birth rate increase, they raised it again in 2021 to three children per couple.
Then last year – for the first time since the widespread Chinese famines of the 1960s – the country saw a population decline, with more people dying in 2022 than were born.
There were fewer births in China last year than at any point since 1790.
For decades, China had the world’s largest workforce. But with such low birthrates, as older workers retire, there simply aren’t enough people to replace them.
More importantly, as life expectancy goes up, hundreds of millions of people are approaching retirement age and will need to be taken care of. In 2020 around 14% of the country’s population was over the age of 65. By 2050, that number is expected to be 35%.
China is scrambling to facilitate a baby boom and reverse its stagnant birth rate, as the country has fallen into a population crisis of unprecedented proportions.
From 1980 to 2015 the country implemented a brutal one-child policy, which restricted the vast majority of Chinese families from having multiple children — for fear of overpopulation.
The policy, which often relied on forced abortions and sterilizations, was hugely effective at slowing population growth, but created a slew of cultural, economic, and social setbacks.
Because of the cultural preference for male children, millions of families aborted female babies with the hopes of making their one child a son who could carry on their family line and provide financial support down the road. That contributed to China having the largest gender disparity of males to females of any country on Earth — for much of the early 2000s, for every 100 Chinese girls born, 130 boys were born.
Now… China has 30 million more young men than young women, creating a crisis of young men unable to find wives. This is worse in rural areas where women have left for better jobs in the city. There have been reports of Chinese farmers raiding neighboring countries for women.
In response, the parents of many young women in the country are demanding enormous dowries in exchange for marriage, while the scarcity of potential brides has forced many Chinese men to leave the country in search of a wife.
The average Chinese woman went from having 6 children in 1970 to 3 children in 1985, then fewer than two children by 2010.
In 2016, in response to that decline, the CCP abandoned the one-child policy and raised the limit to two children per couple. When that didn’t lead to any sort of meaningful birth rate increase, they raised it again in 2021 to three children per couple.
Then last year – for the first time since the widespread Chinese famines of the 1960s – the country saw a population decline, with more people dying in 2022 than were born.
There were fewer births in China last year than at any point since 1790.
For decades, China had the world’s largest workforce. But with such low birthrates, as older workers retire, there simply aren’t enough people to replace them.
More importantly, as life expectancy goes up, hundreds of millions of people are approaching retirement age and will need to be taken care of. In 2020 around 14% of the country’s population was over the age of 65. By 2050, that number is expected to be 35%.
Contracting workforce, increasing population demands. What they need is a porous border.
(Most from the Daily Wire via Don)
