Hmmm. Never actually considered that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tubes of You is a magna font of info. Innerestin\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apparently, China is full of empty spaces, and may p\u2019rhaps be lying about its actual population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The effects of its One Child Policy and the hits from COVID may p\u2019rhaps decimated the actual number of folks in the Dragon Lands moreso that officially reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hospitals, public and private, are going bankrupt at double the rate of prior years. The largest maternity hospital \u2013 coincidentally located in Wuhan \u2013 shut down a few months back, with its employees going months without pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bon Jovi\u2019ing all up in this piece \u2026 living on a prayer. Take my hand, but we\u2019re not gonna make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schools and daycare centers are shutting down at exponential rates. Airports, shopping malls, subways \u2026 all empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where are 1.4B people? How does one misplace 1.4B people? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, the nation is the world\u2019s jetaway destination for organ harvesting, so that may p\u2019rhaps \u2018splain some things, but still. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are huge cities with no people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are tech hubs with no people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are rural villages with \u2013 take a guess \u2013 no people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Makes one wonder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vampires? Sinkholes? Teleportation? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually, the Tuber mentioned something much more banal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moral corruption and financial bankruptcy of the society. Hmmm \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that\u2019s everyone\/everywhere\/everything. So what\u2019s the diff?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recounted a story of a man who, while working a 4,000 yuan\/month job (about $600), managed to save\/borrow 188,000 yuan as the bride price for a woman he wanted to marry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ready to pull the trigger, as it t\u2019were, when the woman\u2019s family demanded another 30,000 yuan for the \u201c3 Golds\u201d \u2026 gold ring, gold necklace, gold bracelet. Said all her friends got that, so \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So \u2026 he took his money and a leave of absence from his job and went traveling throughout China, said guess my blood dies with me, totes OK w\/that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The really real problem? Same everywhere, in every country, and in every society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Money, and the lack thereof. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
People, ordinary folks, who earn wages do not earn enough to afford the life that is being sold under the social contract. Unearned income \u2013 investments, start-ups, VC \u2013 are imminently more profitable and gatekept like a sect of elite child-molesting cannibals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a guy making $600\/month has to cough up over $25,000 just to get married, no thanks.\u00a0
Traveling seems nice.\u00a0 Traveling seems good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governments around the world are offering financial incentives for folks to get married and breed, but the offer is getting pimp-slapped by the long-term cost of the act \u2026 $300,000 to 18? For one kid? Seems the focus is on the wrong end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seems the masters of mankind done grifted themselves right out of a future for everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must say \u2026 totes admiring the fact that women worldwide are foregoing the breeding process, just saying no thanks to that … get the TIFs to do it. Womb donation \/ an untapped market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Triggering some of the menfolks tho\u2019, who claim\/believe\/bleat that reproduction is the debt women owe to men for building society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welp, should have built a better society \u2026 built in less stress \/ less struggle, p\u2019rhaps.
More joy, less pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ain\u2019t nobody takin\u2019 time fahdat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good on women. Methinks keep up the good work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beware the breeding farms\/pens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because marriage boot camps are just the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men, particularly those in power with the most to lose from the collapse of this economic system, will not go quietly into that good night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome to Gilead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hmmm. Never actually considered that. Tubes of You is a magna font of info. Innerestin\u2019 Apparently, China is full of empty spaces, and may p\u2019rhaps be lying about its actual population. The effects of its One Child Policy and the hits from COVID may p\u2019rhaps decimated the actual number of folks in the Dragon Lands … <\/p>\n