In recent years, topics related to population changes in the mainland have been attracting much attention, and the issue of male and female fertility among young people of appropriate age has also been the focus of discussion, according to the query of relevant data, the fertility rate of the mainland has continued to decline, and in 2022, the natural growth rate of the mainland's population has shown negative growth for the first time.
First, there is a lack of sufficient material foundation
Wang Defeng, a professor at Fudan University's School of Philosophy, said that the reason for fear is related to the economy and the transformation of society. From the 80s to the present, housing prices have risen 300 times, while the income has only increased by less than 5 times, and the average salary of workers is less than two or three thousand, a little more than five or six thousand, and some more seven or eight thousand, very few can really maintain an income of tens of thousands of yuan, and the house cannot afford to buy, so they can only maintain their basic life, let alone have children and raise children.
Second, the cost of living is high and the pressure is high
Zhang Ailing said: "If a child is born to inherit his labor, panic, and poverty, then not giving birth is also a kind of kindness." "Now we are living very tired, sometimes we don't know if we can carry it, if the children continue to live so tired of our generation, is it meaningful?
Third, the income of childbirth is reduced
On the one hand, because the cost of raising is extremely low, one more person is nothing more than an extra pair of chopsticks, steaming a few more sweet potatoes, and raising them until they are six or seven years old to help the family work, and when they are in their teens, they are a strong laborer, they eat and live in their own homes, and they also work for their own families, and all the benefits are controlled and distributed by their parents. On the other hand, in the eyes of the older generation, children are assets and labor, so even if they are poor, they must have more children, and more people can create more labor value.
But with the development of society, the gap in the cost of raising is becoming more and more obvious, and the working white-collar class has no time and no energy to raise children, because they have been deprived of a lot of time by 996. Empty your savings to make a down payment, and finally raise a talent, you can't stay by your side to help you work, you can only go to work for the capitalists, and even when you are old, you may not be able to count on the pension, the extremely high cost has almost no benefits, having children has changed from creating assets to creating liabilities, and having children has become a loss-making business, who wants to have more children?
Is capital the biggest driver of fertility decline?
One of the biggest advantages of capitalism is that it can accumulate huge amounts of wealth in a short period of time, which greatly improves people's livelihood. But the evil consequences are also very prominent, that is, capital will make a country and nation have no successors, fall into the abyss of aging and cannot extricate themselves. It is a matter of course for businessmen to pursue profits and make money, but they must not ignore their conscience and lose their duty as human beings.
It is true that hard work and prosperity, laziness and poverty are true in the normal free market economic environment, which is also a fair distribution method that conforms to the laws of nature, and conforms to the Confucian truth that those who have permanent property have perseverance. Many of the landlords, squires and wealthy businessmen who made money and made a fortune under the traditional free economy were kind and approachable, and they were willing to lend a helping hand to the poor when they were in trouble, and they were even willing to destroy their homes to relieve them when the country was in crisis.
(This is a Spring Festival couplet posted by a landlord in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province during the Anti-Japanese War.) The upper link is: all the people are united to protect the independence of the country; the lower link is: indomitable struggle for the survival of the nation; and the horizontal link is: the war of resistance to the end)
In a society where capital has reached the extreme, the group of the weak and the strong will think that rich and poor are the only criteria for others to look down on you, and they themselves feel that the relationship between people only depends on interests, and only revolves around interests, while Confucianism talks about "the gentleman is righteous and the villain is profitable". In the history of the mainland, there has been a deep brotherhood, and countless people have died for the sake of righteousness, whether rich or poor. For example, during the Anti-Japanese War, Dai Wanling, a large landowner, led his family to resist the war, sold all his family property, purchased guns and ammunition, and defected to the anti-Japanese war team. In the end, he and his six sons were all killed on the battlefield, and the family property was also consumed, leaving the family of dozens of people, only one grandson and two women.
Another example is those air force pilots, almost all of whom are children of rich families, and many of them are returned overseas Chinese. With their family's wealth, they could have stayed out of it, but they chose to die for their country. The average age of their martyrdom was only in their early twenties, which was the best time of their lives.
Today's rich people, when the country is in danger, who will have such an awareness?
Today's capital, in pursuit of profit, directly attacks our traditional virtues, because these traditional virtues stand in their way. For example, the traditional virtue of women's diligence and thrift is a sin in the eyes of capital, so they fool women into crazy consumption and make all festivals (except Qingming Festival) a festival for women to collect money. Even so, they are still not satisfied, and artificially create "Internet Valentine's Day" such as "520" and "527", and also make such absurd things as "the first cup of milk tea in autumn".
In addition, he concocted poisonous chicken soup such as "If you don't spend money on your girlfriend, you don't love you", "You are responsible for making money to support your family, and I am responsible for being beautiful like a flower" and so on. This is the slogan of a shopping mall: "Please respectfully hand over your bank card so that your girlfriend can shop to your heart's content." In addition, they also concocted all kinds of TV dramas, those so-called "youth idol dramas" all promote feminism, and men have all become "licking dogs", constantly currying favor with women. They have sucked out the kindness and shame of women, as well as the blood and backbone of men, and they have all become slaves to money. The women of a nation have no moral constraints, which must be a great misfortune for this nation, but for capital, it is a great fortune, because they can make money unscrupulously.
Today's system is that people "die if they are addicted", a house can empty "6 wallets", and then overdraft the wealth of the whole family for decades to come. In addition, the feminism advocated by capital has taken consumerism to the extreme, and some women have fished several "licking dogs" at the same time for shopping sprees. A woman beat her boyfriend on the street because she didn't buy a bag worth tens of thousands of yuan, and another woman fled after defrauding her of a huge bride price, and as a result, she dragged her whole family to the funeral.
Some men grasp the weakness of some women's love for vanity, and become scumbags to cheat money and sex, and they can even step on more than a dozen boats at the same time. It's no wonder that because of the demands of some women, normal people can no longer meet them, so they give scammers a chance. Nowadays, some things are selfish, everyone thinks about themselves, where is there any family and country?
If a nation wants to last for a long time, in addition to the reproduction of material wealth, the reproduction of population is also the top priority. If a family has no inheritance, it will soon perish, and if a nation has no inheritance, the country will be wiped out, and the land will be occupied by foreigners.
(With such a high aging population, can society still function normally?)
But now that capitalism is raging, many necessities for people's livelihood have also been used to do business, thus forming several "mountains" that overwhelm the people. Nowadays, some people only think about making money, and for the sake of money, they dare to do countless things that are unconscionable; some people simply lie down when they don't see hope, and they are drunk today and drunk tomorrow, regardless of whether they are right or wrong tomorrow.
Where can there be any hope for such a nation?
Even if a large amount of wealth has been accumulated in a short period of time, it is only the "prosperous age" of a very small number of people, and most people have difficulty even surviving, so how can they pass it on to their descendants?
Our ancestors talked about "returning to their hometown" and "returning to their roots", attaching importance to family affection and family inheritance. But today's people dislike their hometown, and they want to run to the big city and never come back, or simply run abroad. And the big cities are only superficially prosperous, "outside the gold and jade, and ruined in the middle".
We often see videos taken by some foreigners after they come to China, and they are all amazed at the speed of our country's development, but they don't know how many people's blood, tears, and bitterness are behind such a beautiful city! They don't know that the people's livelihood in China today is difficult, the fertility rate is extremely low, and the aging population is so high that it is shocking! Patches of rural areas have become gathering places for the old, weak, sick and disabled, and those who can go have already left, and it will not be long before small cities will become dead cities.
(The countryside has been hollowed out, and small cities will inevitably follow in the footsteps of this in the future)
Unfortunately, some people don't seem to be aware of these issues. They also know that they need to encourage childbearing, but the plan they come up with is a palliative treatment rather than a cure, and it is not painful at all, and it can even be said to be a disadvantage. Sichuan, for example, allows unmarried and illegitimate children to have children, which will not only not increase the fertility rate, but will further deteriorate the social atmosphere and further disintegrate the family.
Only a normal family atmosphere is the most conducive to having multiple children, and if you give birth unmarried, a woman with illegitimate children will also be a big problem for the child's education. Children who lack paternal love have an 8.5 times higher crime rate than children from normal families! In order to increase the fertility rate, some people must give up the benefits they have now and use their wealth to encourage childbearing. Just like many big landowners during the Anti-Japanese War, for the sake of national inheritance, even if they destroyed the family business of Nuoda, they did not hesitate to do so. The danger of the peoples on the mainland today is no worse than then, and once the population is replaced, it will be irreversible!
But how many people will have the consciousness of those people now? Asking them to give up the benefits they have in their hands is simply a matter of asking for fish from a tree. Therefore, we can only come up with some painless suggestions, which are a drop in the bucket, which is of no help at all, and in many cases even helps.
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