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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:59PM (#28135861)
Unless you count farmers as part of the workforce, otherwise China will not see a reduction of their workforce for 10-15 years.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by tbihl on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:01PM (#28136336)
Why not count farmers as part of the workforce?
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by sudosysgen on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:22PM (#28136481)
Because the amount of farmers is mostly decoupled from total agricultural output for industrial societies until you hit ~2%. So they're not really productive in the way normal workers are.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by eunos on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:15PM (#28136432)
Farming as percentage of workforce is still huge in China. Higher than countries with similar GDP per capita. Urbanization is also not high enough.
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