The great demographic tragedy is that the opportunity cost of child-bearing increases as a superlinear function of social competence.
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Replying to @diachronist @robwillcummins
Using "social competence" here to mean something far closer to productivity.
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There are contextual technological and cultural-institutional factors, though. Average Chinese social competence has exploded since 1979. Hence fertility suppression, even with end of the one child policy.
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Feel free to translate to "economic competence" if that helps the formulas run smoothly.
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