 China's population has shrunk for the first time in 60 years now. What does that mean for the country? But also what type of questions does that raise for the globe in general? Oh, man This is going viral right now New York Times dropped an article about it There's so many videos on YouTube about it and or hundreds of thousands of comments people feel this way people feel that way We got to get into it. We got to talk about China first Then we got to talk about a lot most industrialized countries where this is just a common trend in general even though for different reasons and then Number three we just got to get into humanity in general So make sure you like subscribe and turn on notifications Andrew. What's going on in China? What is causing this article to go so viral? Well, I think that China's population not not only the birth rate is declining But actually the population has declined like they have like 850,000 less people than they did last year now that could be for a number of reasons right COVID or whatever But basically people are not having as many kids and there's not a lot of kids to even have kids Because a lot of people are pointing out the one-child policy as we know it got really ugly was a very extreme thing to do They did it in an effort to save like almost up to 400 million people However, there was a lot of other ramifications now in the future. There isn't an imbalance of men and women There's over there's more. There's 30 million more men than women in China So that means that there's a bunch of millions of single dudes who are not going to be able to Have another branch on the family tree. They call them bare branches You know, I'm glad that we saved some of the famine and the resource fighting and the water usage But now I'm a bare branch. I will never bear any leaves and I feel very sad about that It's getting a pretty lonely and now I'm starting to spend my paycheck on these streamers who make me feel like I have no And I don't want to joke about it because it is it is it is a situation It's a real it's a real perhaps We could have went with a two-child policy a little bit earlier and maybe like, you know Just change some things around so it's not so extreme. Well, you know in the Western world We also have a problem of too many single men, but it's not because of the one-child policy It's because of these progressive policies for women and they want to work and then they don't have kids Well, it's tough. I mean hindsight is always 2020 But I think that a lot of people around the world are looking at China because it is the largest country in the world Although I believe India is gonna overtake a population this year So a lot of people are looking at the ramifications Economically, they're looking at the ramifications as just like a marker for what's gonna happen in other countries, you know Obviously Japan and Italy they're way further on their like depopulation map journey already But um, and what are people thinking about this from a capitalistic level because there's so many levels There's like the family level internally, which is like all we're wearing all the kids are gonna be little emperors Xiao Huang D's there's a capitalistic level and there's even like a man versus woman patriarchal like old gender role Yeah, but taking it out of all that I mean There's a lot of obviously China is kind of one of the centers of the world right as far as what they produce Everybody buys from them. They do trade with them. That's why whatever happens in China You got to pay attention to right and a lot of capitalists are linking. Yeah Well, you know, we do so much business with China and they produce so many great fine goods for us But if they're labor force decreases in the future Who's gonna make all the goods for them and at what price so is the price gonna go up and there's gonna be less Goods man, that's gonna be kind of weird Right, that's gonna even affect my business right right and all the factory infrastructures already built up And you could say shifted to other markets But then you have to go lay the groundwork to get all the factories popping in other markets now I think I don't know if this is a solution or how many immigrants you could bring into China or how Appealing China is to a bunch of immigrants, right to bring into China that could would fill up the factories and also I guess some of them wouldn't marry the the men and To be honest to be to keep it real I think the Chinese language is so hard and life there It's not bad, but it's like definitely not the most appealing to people who are used to like living their way to be honest So that's not gonna happen I would say on the anti-capitalistic viewpoint a lot of people are like finally this whole Ponzi scheme for the last 150 years a global capitalism could come to an end and we could find something more sustainable not only for mother nature But for the earth in general because if for the longest time the last hundred fifty years We've maintained a surf peasant system But we sort of put it underneath the guise of global capitalism where people are born into these like low-wage factory jobs They gotta work for 20 30 40 years It's no different than just an old-school dynastic things where there was elites and peasants and middle-level people this whole thing Needed to come to an end anyway. It was a whole scam. Yeah for sure No, and I mean I think there's an argument for less stuff in the world But also also some very smart guys, but controversial guys like Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson are the type to be like you You need more humans. You need to have kids so that you can innovate more because the humans they innovate And then that's gonna make the world better for everybody, right? You're saying that Elon and Jordan Peterson. They're almost making the Man must like push mankind forward at all costs argument, right? And then of course that's a very like I guess American Capitalistic way of thinking I think there's pros and cons of that on the other side in there's almost more like a Canadian thinking You know like hey, why don't we like, you know, we slow it down Oh, yeah, we like progress, but you know not when there's progress in a bunch of people are like having bad lives and being hurt by it Yeah, no, and sometimes there is a beauty in just having enough of what you need But I think that I don't know I think any advanced society has passed that attitude because we just want more and more We want more fun more things more food more right, but anyways I think that David China to take the focus a little bit off of China because there's there's other countries that are going through The same thing right now. I might be on different levels, and I think again China being such a big country means that anything that happens in China involves Like a hundred times the amount of people then it does in other countries, so we have to understand this It's almost just a magnified problem. Yeah, I mean like we said Japan and Italy they're way further along that arc already Japan they're going with robots. Italy's just going with Sticking with whatever they got to be honest from what I believe so I think that everybody's gonna have to figure it out And it's just so interesting that the whole depopulation of the world thing Just became such a big issue in the past like six months Yeah Well, I think people had always been talking about it But when a big dog like China and it's clear that they're going through it then it becomes like a global issue, right? I mean even Japan has been talking about this for decades, right? Then even like the culture robots or immigrants we choose robots Oh, you know, I'm into the street style and the Harajuku style much more than I am into having children Yeah, you know like well there was the whole idea of like the herbivore man who's more into style and is like You know whatever anyways, but I guess what I guess I'm trying to say is like Is there anything that China could do to him or these countries could do to entice? People to have kids or could China entice women to come back Well, one thing I saw for example in Japan and Japan is a very different system, right because they're a very rich country I've seen them like incentivize people with like cash payouts to move out of the city into the burbs because they feel like people have More kids once they're in a house in the burbs with more space. I just think that in general Society would have to change. I think the pressure on the women is too much and you know I definitely don't believe in people are like, you know, we need to bring it back to the old school patriarchal gender roles But a woman stays at home and I was a bunch of kids I don't actually think that that's true But I just think that some of the pressures need to be eased off of it But I just don't know how you would accomplish that because it would be actually like a societal shift in society He's made of like so many different moving parts. I guess another question is like what's even a good amount of people for the earth Yeah, you're right. Is it 5 billion? Is it 12 billion? I think right now we're at 7 billion and a lot of people think it's gonna cap and then go backwards at 9 billion Who knows man? Yeah, you know, it's funny is that there was all these sci-fi movies and all this talk like 15 years ago I remember where everybody was like dude, the world's gonna get overpopulated the world's gonna get overpopulated And now it kind of looks like that it might even decrease overall if not stay the same, you know what I mean? and so maybe that's kind of a Earth itself or society itself just kind of like moving in waves and cycles, right? I don't know I guess for me, I don't really take like this ultra-capitalistic Jordan Peterson Elon Musk perspective surprise And I also don't take the like we just need to love mother nature and just like we're the enemy humans are the cancer I don't obviously have that perspective either. I'm just like man I just hope that we can do more with what we already have and we can we could just like do if we all just thought differently right now on earth about how we distribute resources and stuff like that We could still all have nice things and uplift the people who are like in dire dire dire dire need for sure I think overall and I still really believe this that Governments need to do a better job of incentivizing people to have children But not just telling them right not just everybody have children I mean like if you feel like you want children you shouldn't be like held back just because like I live in the city I don't leave city, but ultimately because it does come down to the individual because man our lives are so fun Man everybody's lives are so fun There's so much dopamine to be released and there's so many places to go and food to eat and pictures to take That you don't want to have a kid because then you got to stare at this kid You don't get to eat food. You have to stare at this kid So I don't know people have to make choices right but but I don't think that there should be a test that people can Opt in to take about whether or not they shouldn't have more children like if you're gonna derive dopamine from having a family Which by all the means is dope for some people, but the people who shouldn't have kids shouldn't have kids And the people should have kids should be encouraged to have more. I don't know I'm Myers Briggs for Parents I'm not saying everybody should be forced to take it, but like it should be available All right, everybody you let us know in the comments down below what you think we've shared our thoughts Like do you think the situation in China is really really really bad for China? But also about the world in general like what responsibility do humans have and do governments have to help people have more children? Or less children and how bad of a situation is it? We didn't even get to Mars yet. You know, it's all about Mars We didn't get there yet. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching. We are the hot-pot boys and until next time we out Peace