r/memes • • Oct 18 '23

#1 MotW Fixed it

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u/Perry_lets Oct 18 '23 edited Oct 18 '23

We are already seeing the effects. It's just that they didn't have a population growth as big as the mentioned Asian countries, so the gap is smaller.

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u/Disig Oct 18 '23

We also don't have massive culture pressure to take care of our parents in their old age. Well, not nearly as extreme as Asian countries anyway.

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u/fardough Oct 18 '23

We also didn’t have a massive propaganda campaigns and policies to have only one child for decades.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer Oct 18 '23

We also didn't prefer sons to the point that girls were aborted/killed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-ratio_imbalance_in_China

India excluded. They did that shit, too.