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Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”
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China is about to dive into a shitshow of unseen proportions thanks to its 1 child policy in the past. The Chinese populace is set to shrink to 800 million in the next 50 or so years which will cause a shitload of economical problems for China. It's the single biggest reason why China is prepping to invade Taiwan now because it's either now or never, as in a decade from now it won't be able to financially support said invasion. China could grow like crazy because of its cheap labour but those times are gone. Wages rose, wealth rose, and the advantages they had are gone. Now they will face a rapidly aging work force with way WAY too little people to replace the retirees that need taking care of.
Russia is fucked. If they win the Ukraine Invasion, they are fucked, if they lose it, they are fucked. If they win, they'll get an utterly destroyed country that needs some half trillion dollars of investment to be able to repair itself. Take with that that the Ukrainian people hated eachother before the war, yet now are more United than ever. Russia will face terrorism from there for a long time to come. If they lose, the world will keep blocking them until they pay said billions for Ukrainian repairs, and it will cost Putin his head.
Meanwhile they had a huge outflux of knowledge and experience with loads of capable men fleeing the country to escape roundups to be sent to the front lines. They are currently running a war time economy which keeps them afloat until this war is over, then shit will start hitting fans everywhere.
My take: China will slowly fade to a medium player over the next decades, Russia is on the brink of a heavy collapse. India is a big contender of being the next evil empire with its current leadership being a bunch of extremists.
It would be nice if people toxoukd stop with the imerialistic bullshit and just start caring about all the people in the world. Listen to scientists, elect government officials that are actually responsible. Don't go for crazy growth, it will come back to bite you in the ass.
Ooohhh you must be one of those tankies i keep hearing about...
Lets not read the comment, lets just post a meme..? Great argument.
None of what I said is particularly controversial, the Chinese population distribution is a shitshow in the making. But lets post a meme.
You know what, good boy, you get an extra social point !
A thing people have been repeating for centuries.
How about: no.
Also how about: even China admits is a shit show, and they're desperately trying to fix the issue by not only loosening the baby laws, they are actively pushing people to have babies and for some "unknown" reason they don't wanna.
Seriously, all toundo is post dumb memes and slogans.
Are you 14 or something? I thought I was talking to an adult but I seem to have been mistaken
Go ahead. Lets see your work. Are you referring to a specific statement or is this bluster?
They've been ratcheting and loosening their One Child Policy (now closer to a 2.3 Child Policy) for half a century. But then so has every other country with a functioning census bureau.
Westerners were outright panicked about "Overpopulation" for half my adult life. Then the 2008 financial crash happened and someone noticed a change in the second derivative of population trends. And now we get an article a week about how we'll be entirely babyless inside the next generation.
That would make me, what? Three years your senior? Show some respect.