The avalanche of new populations is a cost that every member of society has to bear.
The post-60s and 70s, with an average of 25 million to 30 million per year, are retiring one after another, and will enter the age of 75+ in 10 years, who will pay social security to pay them pensions? Who will take care of the work?
It is easy to understand that either the supply of young people will be increased, or the demand of older people will be reduced.
Increasing the supply of young people is nothing more than giving birth and increasing working hours;
Reducing the needs of the elderly is nothing more than delaying retirement, self-care, centralized care, lowering standards, etc.
In Chinese culture, there are periods of timely pleasure (Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties), and there are also periods of heavenly principles and extinguishing human desires (Southern Song, Ming and Qing dynasties).
Without a future, it is cost-effective to have fun in time; With tomorrow in mind, society will be more self-disciplined.
However, freedom comes at a price. The first dynasty, although far away must be punished by the successors of the Han Dynasty, ended up in chaos and crossed to the south.
Cheng Zhu Lixue's proposal of "preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires" is not a stubborn mind, let alone wishful thinking.
Even though the Southern Song Dynasty eventually died in the Mengyuan Dynasty, the passing of the torch of Chinese civilization was really due to Zhu Xi's set.
Otherwise, there could not have been a strong period in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
China's territorial expansion and population expansion were basically the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
The historical context is very clear, Cheng Zhu Lixue greatly restricted the freedom of men and women, and the deprivation of women's reproductive rights brought about population prosperity.
In the process of women's liberation and equality, the right to abortion is a very controversial topic.
Proponents believe that women have absolute control over their own bodies, and that sex or non-sexuality, birth or non-birth, are all natural women's right to choose.
Human history has taken a strange direction.
Economic development, women's emancipation, women's rights expansion, declining fertility, introduction of aliens, and the demise of civilization.
The more economically developed countries and regions, the lower the fertility rate.
The more economically backward countries and regions are, with low human rights and low freedoms, the higher the fertility rate.
Racial reproduction is completely dependent on female reproduction, but it is based on the suppression of women's reproductive rights.
Historical experience has proved that the redemption of goods based on the transfer of material benefits and compensation is invalid.
This paradox is unsolvable in known human history.
Successful races all rely on the power of religion and culture to make women willingly accept the fate of being suppressed by their natural rights.
From a rational point of view, childbirth and its guaranteed form of marriage is the process by which both men and women transfer their benefits to their newborns and compromise their own welfare. The cost is immediate, the joy is imaginary, and the return is unreliable.
Essentially, racial reproduction is the transfer of benefits from parents to their children in a long chain of life.
Looking at fertility beyond childbirth, it is the embodiment of fairness and justice.
The Western Jin Dynasty and Western Rome were considered unjust and immoral by later generations.
The pursuit of rights and freedoms is therefore no longer seen as unilateral justice, but rather as finding a balance between the need and the suffering of responsibility.
The races that do not take responsibility and suffer are extinct, and the suffering is still multiplying and perpetuating.
Therefore, Buddhism says that all living beings are suffering.
The Book of Changes says that great virtue is born.
Mencius said that born in sorrow, died in peace.
To marry or not to marry, to have or not to have children, is a personal choice.
The future of the nation depends on whether those who choose to give birth are the mainstream, or those who do not give birth are the mainstream.
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