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A comment on TSMC Reports Q3 Earnings [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:TSMC Reports Q3 Earnings [pdf] by epicureanideal on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:06PM (#33192902)
> People in China are just people, right? Many of them don’t want to have kids. What’s the government gonna do?

See the Cultural Revolution and Great Famine etc for examples of what it can do. Basically anything.

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Re:TSMC Reports Q3 Earnings [pdf] by CogitoCogito on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:05PM (#33193731)
> See the Cultural Revolution and Great Famine etc for examples of what it can do. Basically anything.

Even assuming China is all powerful and can achieve "anything" here, the policies would still have a latency of an entire generation. Unless you include time-travel as part of "anything".

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Re:TSMC Reports Q3 Earnings [pdf] by hnfong on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:43PM (#33194833)
Killing people is much easier than making people raise babies.
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