Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why Are China’s Youth Boycotting Pensions?" video.

China at the time was worried about not having enough growth and jobs to make all those kids eventually net productive, especially with all the changes that were starting to automate away jobs and the rising calls for reform that led to 1989... having lots of unemployed youth is politically very hazardous. Thing is they kept their One Child Policy for way too long, passing through their prosperous 2000s and early 2010s without birthing the people to pass it on to.
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It's sad how America's tax policy robs from young producers to give to the end-of-life and often obsolete-minded. But that's the unfortunate side effect of one man one vote democracy when the most consistent voters are the ones who have not much else to do but get politically indoctrinated by the TV and have all day to line up at the polls.
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