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Re:How America's universities became debt factories by ben_w on Saturday September 14, 2024 @01:30PM (#41541322)
They stopped the one child policy nine years ago; they had it in the first place because demographic projections had them severely overpopulated if they didn't.

During the period in which it was active, their GDP increased by a factor of about 62. Not percentage, multiple.

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Re:How America's universities became debt factories by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday September 14, 2024 @08:42PM (#41544227)
They reversed the policy too late. Their rapid growth was them seizing the low hanging fruit upgrading from a country of almost entirely peasants to slightly fewer peasants, all funded by Western greed. Those gains will never happen again.
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