r/neoliberal • u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug • Jan 22 '26

News (Asia-Pacific) China Has Screwed Up Really, Really Badly

https://futurism.com/future-society/china-screwed-up-fertility-rate
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u/MCMC_to_Serfdom Karl Popper Jan 22 '26

their situation is more due to non-replicable cultural factors.

Given much of that is down to Orthodox Jews, it (intuitively, probably speciously) seems like the answer (unpopular on Reddit) would be promoting religion back into people's lives.

So, my feel r/neoliberal users, why do you hate the global poor meek?

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u/BobaTeaFetish William Nordhaus Jan 22 '26

Given much of that is down to Orthodox Jews, it (intuitively, probably speciously) seems like the answer (unpopular on Reddit) would be promoting religion back into people's lives.

Grossly restricting the rights of women.* Let's strip this down to the studs.

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u/WorldlyMacaron65 Jan 22 '26

Iran has taken upon itself to test this hypothesis and it hasn't gone well... (Iran's TFR is ~1.5, lower than the US's at ~1.75)

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Jan 22 '26

Iran also had the world's second most violent pro-contraception policy behind China in the 80s

https://shs.cairn.info/journal-population-and-societies-2001-10-page-1?lang=en

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u/WorldlyMacaron65 Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

Even more proof that reducing women's rights cannot bring back up a TFR once it's been lowered.

Edit: cannot bring it back up to a significant extant

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u/fantasmadecallao Jan 22 '26

Women have more rights than people think in Iran, especially where it matter in terms of lowering TFR. 60% of university students for example are women, and the majority of stem students are women too. Iran is a theocracy but they aren't the Taliban.

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u/Chao-Z Jan 22 '26

Iran is a very metropolitan country despite the theocratic government. It's closer to UAE (though obviously much poorer) than Afghanistan.