{"id":33255,"date":"2021-06-10T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33255"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:47:30","slug":"will-tweaking-be-futile-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/10\/will-tweaking-be-futile-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Tweaking Be Futile? Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my remarks concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/31\/will-tweaking-be-futile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese population policy changes<\/a>, a reader responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Their population is still growing, just not as fast. Only when it stops growing in actuality will I believe the projections.<\/p>\n<p>I also have to laugh (sickly) at the phrase &#8220;demographic crisis&#8221; because of the slowing growth. What a clever way to hide what they really mean: having too many people allows us to have slave labor, and extract now from the future when we leaders are all dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elderly become more and more of a burden as they burgeon, so demographic crisis means that work expended on taking care of the elderly as a percentage of total work, or even more accurately by those who are qualified to perform eldercare.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the Communist Party is notorious for its lack of concern for human rights. It prioritizes retaining power, and the loyalty of the PLA (<em>People&#8217;s Liberation Army<\/em>) let&#8217;s it otherwise abuse the citizenry. The population policy restraints had to do with available resources, I should imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my remarks concerning Chinese population policy changes, a reader responds: Their population is still growing, just not as fast. Only when it stops growing in actuality will I believe the projections. I also have to laugh (sickly) at the phrase &#8220;demographic crisis&#8221; because of the slowing growth. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/10\/will-tweaking-be-futile-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33256,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33255\/revisions\/33256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}