| | | It's strange that people seem to have only recently figured out that Made in China people were going to rapidly decrease due to one child policy and also trends in the way people behave given modern technology such as conception prevention and attitudes to having children. It was also obvious decades ago that given the preference for boys instead of girls, the vast surplus of men would result. I recall you disputing that a couple of decades ago when I expressed it.
But I'm with you that having half or quarter the population of China is not going to be any particular problem. My argument for decades is that quality control matters and that eugenics is a good thing. Of course not eugenics by Big Brother who is a moron as usual, but by women who traditionally choose among the men on offer to get the good genetics in their off-spring.
100 supersonic smart people beat 1,000,000 below average IQ.
In the old days, large numbers were needed for the largely randomized winnowing of DNA to get the right stuff. Now, with genetic engineering and complete genome information, the right stuff can be copy/pasted for each woman for each child as she wishes.
People are not fungible. Simplistically importing a megaton of Moslems to Germany to maintain numbers won't keep the teutonic standards high. On the contrary, Germany will come to look like the places from whence they came = not much good at all, which is why they left. Same for Londonistan which is pretty much the Islamic capital of the world now. USA importing megatons of marauders from south of the border will not turn USA into a shining city on a hill.
Japan has had a declining population for a while and that's going to accelerate. Japan is wonderful. I've had many jobs that I'd much prefer robots do. They now do many of those jobs. If the Auckland population would decrease by a million it would suit me just fine. For fifty years politicians and others have intentionally imported people, purportedly to improve the economy. If having lots of people was good, then Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Cambodia would be wonderful. Singapore, Iceland, Switzerland, Luxembourg would be bad.
China with 300 million people should be able to do anything they like.
I don't see a problem either with people getting old - I personally far prefer it to the alternative, and long may it continue, or reducing total people by 80%. As in my family and wife's, some women are breeders, some not, and that has applied going back to beginning of family records in the early 19th century. It's not that all women will have 2.03 children, some will have 5 or 10 [who are good at breeding and like to do so], and others none.
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