Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "China's population falls for first time since 1961 - BBC News" video.

  1. It's worse than the numbers imply. China's local government widely double count residents to get larger allotments of state resources, leading to exaggerated population figures.
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  2. In China, the term is huminerals (human mineral). Referring to how people are regarded as expendable resources to be invested in and profit from.
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  3. China isn't the world.
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  4. Remove the zero and practice what you preach
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  5. @willyang4487  there's a number of ways, but the big one is China has internal state citizenship, and much of the population are migrant seasonal workers (I.E. People go to the country to harvest/plant, and go to the cities to build). All Chinese states have large numbers of internal expats as people move looking for work. Most if not all states count all their citizens regardless where they live, and they count permanent and seasonal residents too.
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  6. Highly misleading. First, China's rice soil is some of the best in the world, with many areas harvesting two high yield rice crops a year. Second is food shortages are a self correcting problem. You don't have to poison the rivers to some food shortages
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  7. ​@jacoblucasgifts Oddly enough, we've had one of the longest runs of continuous overall peace in history.
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  8. Some areas are even encouraging child raising, but economics are so tight that even married couples without kids struggle to get by.
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  9. The world always needs a supply of new people.
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  10. They aren't dumb. Humsns see humans as competition. They want less competition, no matter what pain and suffering that entails.
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  11.  @yank-blood-no-eat-get  it means the same thing in modern terminology.
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  12. @user-eu1og5di4s  towns and neighborhoods come and go year to year in China. One common racket is to coerce condemnation of homes in order for new buildings to boost GDP numbers, bring in tax dollars from people buying the new home, and to give construction business to favored companies. Some entire cities are built but are never sold because no jobs in the area, leading to absurd situations where housing in one town is literally free, and housing in another town a hundred miles away costing too much for the average worker.
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  13. Not all of them were girls, and someone definitely poisoned the water in China
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  14.  @jacoblucasgifts  not exactly recent. We're overdue for another big war
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  15. @jayc1858  who said I expected anything? Unless you're willing to cut out routine sex from your life, you're going to have kids, end of story.
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  16. @dhsf5937  since when does money have anything to do with family size?
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  17. No. Someone has poisoned the water for some reason
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  18. @faithingod5533  a lot of them are like that
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  19. Someone poisoned the water is what's up. And if you really thought that you would have offed yourself by now
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  20.  clemathieujt6589  you ain't helping anyone, little emperor.
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  21. @user-eu1og5di4s  sometimes yes, but we're talking deliberately exaggerating census figures. As in births in other countries are sometimes counted locally if the mother was from there
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  22. @@dr5290 tell it to your mother
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  23.  @ZengJunjie98  lying isn't necessary in this instance. I repeat, state resources are allocated almost exclusively on population sizes.
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  24. @user-eu1og5di4s  urbanization simply didn't happen (mostly). Most Chinese people still live in villages and small cities that no one ever heard of despite incentive programs. Usually it's because first and second tier cities are expensive and overcrowded even by first world standards. 3 hour commutes are not uncommon, as is spending in excess of 2/3 income on rent/mortgages. General rule of life, if the politicians and editorials are hailing progress in this or that, reality is never as grand as they make it sound even if they are technically telling the truth.
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  25. @user-eu1og5di4s  Cases even more extreme than what I bring up are reported, but it varies wildly between cities. Some cities have reported loan default rates in excess of 50% in 2022.
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  26. No. Someone poisoned the water
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  27. Are you advocating mass murder? Because if you are, I insist you practice what you preach
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  28.  @titteryenot4524  screw that guy. Literally
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  29. Dude, we don't have makeshift crematoriums overflowing with bodied
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