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Re:China urges its people to struggle. Some say no by kar5pt on Thursday July 08, 2021 @10:43AM (#27772577)
There's 34 million more men than women in China.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-...

Seems totally reasonable to think that not have the potential to be a husband/father would affect how men view the payoff of gaining higher social status. You can't write that off as "Der der redpill!"

Re:China urges its people to struggle. Some say no by sangnoir on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:12PM (#27774966)
They solve that by legalizing polyandry, but I don't know if Chinese social dynamics would support such an arrangement. Actual red pillers won't like that solution, for sure.
Re:China urges its people to struggle. Some say no by Koiwai on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:25AM (#27780702)
Wow, legalizing polyandry? I'm genuinely amused by how you guys demonize China.
Re:China urges its people to struggle. Some say no by newacct583 on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:01AM (#27772821)
But there are more than a billion chinese citizens...

In fact the gender ratio among 15-24 year old chinese (the peak of the one child gender curve) is 1.17. That's not low, but it's hardly a strong effect either. In particular those 17% of citizens having trouble finding a mate seems like a rather smaller effect than the significantly larger increase in workforce participation among their more numerous female coworkers.

So China loses a few men who check out because they can't get a date, and gains women by the truckload (no, I don't have demographics) who are entering the workforce. I still don't see why this is a social problem.

So I look to other people trying to claim this is a social problem, and I'm sorry, I see a lot of "der der redpill" and not much else. If this is a serious economic argument, then please make it.

Re:China urges its people to struggle. Some say no by FredPret on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:09PM (#27773914)
It’s not “a few men”. It’s tens of millions of men.