TJ, I thought I pointed this out to you as a problem quite some time ago and you said it didn't exist. I'm pretty sure you denied it, but admit I can't recall the detail. < There is a problem that does give me pause, and we will simply have to watch and brief on it as we go, for it is not going to go away, and will hit us head-on, and it is the issue of gender imbalance – what will 70 million single guys without spouse do?>
That is of course a great opportunity too, in a rather harsh [as nature is] eugenics sense.
As you know, women don't consider themselves available for any passing male to have his way [other than some in the business]. Women are prone to select among those on offer and generally try to pick as good as they can get. The other guys can go by the wayside, adding to the gene pool which was selected to not exist, rather than exist.
With 1.3 billion people and I suppose something like 500 million women of whom a good number must be around child-producing age, there is the world's biggest and history's grandest eugenics programme under way.
When the women have finished their selection and reproduction processes, there will be a large upgrade in the gene pool of China [assuming they have some sort of idea about what they are doing].
After 1000 years or so, in any society, there are two things remaining = gene pool and knowledge. The rest crumbles, rusts, is abandoned, is obsolete etc. China is boot-strapping itself into a very large scale gene pool upgrade.
The spare blokes will have to just go quietly down the genetic gurgler, enjoying their single life and cash flow, which is some compensation for not being tempted into producing the next generation, which as you know, requires substantial input by the selected bloke.
Historically, such hordes of spare young blokes were given swords and instructed to go and conquer nearby lands, getting rid of any males, acquiring the females and hunter/gatherer and agrarian rights. Nowadays, that process isn't such a sensible one as the battlefields tend to move quickly from the fields to the cities, which is annoying for all the other people. Also, countries are interdependent so attacking one's suppliers or customers isn't such a great thing to do.
Before your correspondent attempts Mandarin, he should tame those apostrophe's, which are fired everywhere like rice at a wedding.
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