CHINA's One Child Policy Destroyed Them

I listened to Zeihan’s audio book… he goes into detail about every country like this… definitely worth a read or listen!

So much for the Chinese Century.

3:32 Mao Zedong died in 1976, the one child policy was established three years later in 1979. It wasn't Mao, it was Deng Xiaoping who rolled it out. Mao wasn't concerned about anything. As a matter of fact, Mao encouraged large families: he outlawed abortion and the use of contraception. Under Mao, mothers who gave birth to more than 10 children would receive medals from the state. In short: no, it wasn't Mao. But that's just Zeihan for you. Listening to him is a perfect illustration of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: The phenomenon of people trusting newspapers for topics which they are not knowledgeable about, despite recognizing them to be extremely inaccurate on certain topics which they are knowledgeable about. You listen to Zeihan thinking to yourself "wow! This man is brilliant" then he starts talking about something you have some expertise on and you think "wait, wtf? he's just spewing total nonsense right now" then he again switches topics to something you know nothing about and you return to thinking "Wow! That Zeihan guy is so brilliant." To drive this point even further: there's this website where people make predictions that keeps the tally of who the best forecasters of world events are. It's called "metaculus". Zeihan is considered a joke in that community.

It’s a lot worse than just the one child policy. There is also contraception, feminism and urbanism that caused mass depopulation in China.

Wait how are the Americans not patrolling the oceans anymore?

Dam, Mr positive

The problem with Peter is that there are 15 videos going around where he says the exact same thing....

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Dirty pieces of furniture?

They did this on purpose.

I can't even believe a word this man said on the topic. The math isn't math-ing.

The China-Expert that never got one of his China predictions right. Ever.

More like the "No Child Policy"

Brave New World coming !!!

this guy 🤣

Sole believer of one child policy.

pretty dumb to me. "destroyed"? right. that's why we could not find anything made in China nowadays.

So one child policy is bad and overpopulation is bad, then it is fucked anyways.

Very biased and should take with a pinch of salt however I do agree with the global demographic collapse

I want my 7+ minutes back.