Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "Asian Boss" channel.

"Is declining birthrates a problem?" "Yes." "How many siblings did you have?" "6-8." "How many kids do you have?" "0-2." "How should we deal with the birthrate?" "Young people should have more kids." The lack of self awareness is staggering. They should all know that it's not that easy, because they clearly had the same issues themselves, except things are worse now.
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Yeah, I'm getting into my middle-age myself and the lack of self awareness In these elders is staggering. The seem to be lovely people, but . . . Their parents hade six to eight kids, they themselves had zero to two. It started with their generation, they should know it's not as easy as "just have more kids" because they went through it themselves.
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Just watched the intro. I'm subscribing. The world has gone insane focusing on every little niggling detail that sets us apart instead of the ocean's worth of things we have in common. Edit: I love getting to hear from actual real Chinese people. Not government propaganda, eastern or western, not mainstream "news" media, but real people on the street.
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Even worse, she has zero kids because of focusing on career until it was too late. She *personally* knows why they can't "just have more kids," she went through it herself, but she apparently has no self awareness. That's true for all of them for that matter. Their parents had six to eight kids, they had zero to two. It started with their generation, but they seem oblivious to that.
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Basically, no. Because of the two party system that has developed there over the centuries you rarely get a viable candidate except those supported by the one of the two parties. Normally each side has a few they can pick from, but things haven't been normal for a decade in the west in general. There's a new saying in the west that has become popular due to the last couple decades, and especially the last decade: "The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is six months."
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@goodgame3374 Unfortunately we haven't found the ideal shape of government yet. Monarchies are a roll of the dice and have a tendency to become corrupt and self serving. Democracies can work for a while, until people start figuring out how to rig the system and then they usually become increasingly corrupt and self serving. Communism and socialism tends to not scale up well, and are usually oppressive and authoritative, and have a tendency to become corrupt and self serving. So far we haven't found a perfect system, they all have their problems, and all tend towards corruption over time (probably because they are made up of people).
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@jasons4045 Like I said, Communism and Socialism doesn't scale up well. It can work well in small to mid-sized communities, but not for countries. Not like China is pure Communism anymore, it's an amalgam of Communism and Capitalism. Which is probably why they are the only country where it hasn't lead to the collapse of the country.
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@Melody5p Actually, your point is moot, because almost every country in Africa is also below replacement level. Yes, including the really poor ones. Same as nearly every country on earth in fact. There's less than half a dozen countries on the planet that are at or above replacement level.
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He looks cool
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That may be, but you have to ramp down to that level over several generations with a birthrate just under replacement. Their birthrate is 1.2, that's sudden population collapse levels. Ignore the issues of elders and pensions for a moment and think of what that means for not just production but maintenance of infrastructure. Say you have 100 million people who are of working age plus another 30 million who are too old or too young. The infrastructure to support those 130 million people at it's current level requires the current amount of people working in order to maintain it. If you slowly decrease the amount of people working over generations you can compensate because there are fewer people total and therefore you need less infrastructure. If you decrease the amount of people working over one or two generations then the infrastructure cannot be ramped down and instead starts to break down as you focus on maintain the more vital parts of it over the less vital. These elders' parents had six to eight kids. They themselves had zero to two. That's four times less people of working age now than there were when they were young. The only reason Japan hasn't collapsed into a failed state during that time is because technology has massively increased the productivity and efficiency of each individual worker, which has compensated but it's not enough today. They have a labor shortage already, and every year it's going to get worse as more people age out of working age than age into working age.
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@_KITE Well, looking at the UK, US, Germany, and my own country Sweden, mass immigration isn't exactly a solution either, what with r***, m****r, and other crimes skyrocketing over the last decade. I suppose if they offered solid long-term incentives to immigrants while also having very strict requirements for acceptance they could make it work. But that costs lots and lots of money, which means higher taxes on the existing workforce, which would mean understandable resentment and potential ethnic or socioeconomic based clashes in their near future. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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@Diligent_Movers Nope, it's just that campaigning costs a lot of money. It can be raised with donations, but you need to be well known enough to get those donations in the first place. Anyone can run for president if they were born in the US, is currently a citizen, and above the required age. Mostly though, I think most Americans have just gotten complacent in either voting for the same party every time or voting for one of the two each time. After all, it's winner takes all in most states, so if you don't vote for one of the big two your vote is basically worthless. Yes, the Electoral College is a very, very, very stupid system.
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@MicahRdr There are some key differences, such as access to contraceptives, lower living standards and corresponding lower living costs, a lack of the emphasis on getting an education and a career before settling down to family life, and traditional gender roles, to name just a few. But all of that is completely irrelevant, because almost every single nation on earth, including the poor ones, are currently under replacement level reproduction, with less than half a dozen nations that are above replacement level. That includes almost every single country in Africa. Some are just a bit under replacement level, but a lot, including China, the US, and basically all of Europe are at population collapse replacement levels, with Japan being the worst off. If this doesn't change, globally, at least rise enough that the population decline slows to a rate where we can cope and gradually reduce our amount of infrastructure, then in the next three to five decades we will have too few working age people to run and maintain our current global civilization and vital things like shipping, electrical generation, water treatment, roads, and railways will start to break down.
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@hijackhypergamy Different lifestyles and more importantly very different cultures and beliefs that are resistant to current year ideologies.
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@johnatola7731 Preeeetty sure none of those people, except Mr. Neon, supports those things, and I was referring to minor differences in culture and tradition, not the current cultural genocide commited against the Uyghurs and others by the Chinese government.
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@kinklam6799 Independent candidates have been elected, but only a few times.
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@RohitOneWho Dude, please write in comprehensible English. If it's not a language you are well versed in write what you are trying to say in in your native language and put it through Google translate.
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