My understanding is that it's often the high cost of living rather than government policy which means that couples choose not to have more than one child.
The CN gov is not addressing the living standard thing as usual, but they are “shedding load” on parents by messing with the curriculum again. There has been harsh enforcement on private tutors[0] and reheated talks about making English non-mandatory.[1] (Let’s just say without the English curriculum I will not learn many of the “skills” that lead to me posting here at all.)
And guess what? They are also backpedaling on women’s rights. They are requiring people to jump through extra red tape (managed by the gossipy “community” people!) for getting an abortion and are becoming very conservative with treating uterine fibrosis.[2] Back in the days it was only the ob/gyn requiring family signature to perform hymen-breaking examinations…[3] And relatively barrier-less elective abortions were, well, possibly one of the few upsides of that one-child thing.
Yes,it definitely was like that in the very beginning. Some couples were choosing to fly to Hong Kong and have their second child there but if your second child does not have PRC citizenship, you then have to pay more for education, healthcare and so on. So to a certain extent it is a higher cost of living for a second child. But now the policies have changed, I don't know if this is what's holding couples back anymore.
Former Blue Origin employee here. I didn’t leave in the recent wave of departures, but rather a much earlier one. It’s been ongoing for years, ever since Bob Smith became CEO. This is just the first time there has been a big piece about it in the media (to my knowledge).
If I had to distill the myriad reasons for the waves of departures down to one theme: disappointment. Folks who have been at Blue Origin since before Smith witnessed a huge shift in mentality, going from “we hired you all because you’re smart and we need smart people” under previous leadership to “we’re gonna do what Bob says because he’s the boss”. It’s absolutely demoralizing, even more so because Bob Smith clearly has no idea how to actually make Blue Origin competitive with the likes of SpaceX, as evidenced by everything you’ve already read in the media recently.
I don't know any of these people (ouside of NASA) but when you've got engineers who are actually capable of getting to space, those are some high-performance operators.
No doubt about it.
When engineers like this get a new or changing CEO or anyone in a leadership position having strong impact, the person can become widely disappointing if the leadership positiion is not occupied by someone actually up to the same level of excellence.
Different consensus can be built that these are some low-performance operators or executives.
No doubt about it.
Except the engineers who depend on the situation for their income regardless don't talk about it.
The rest leave.
When you get somebody in a leadership position without the specific leadership ability necessary, they might as well not have any proven leadership ability at all.
It's way worse if the position is occupied with someone having the opposite type of ability.
It can be death to technology before they ever had computer technology.
There will be a force at work which brings the remaining engineers' achievable level of technology down to that of the lower capability of excellence imposed from above.
Even Elon Musk seems to generate a degree of disappointment, so there is always going to be some room for improvement. Maybe he sets a higher bar by being more widely recognized as a high-performance operator himself. You would have to do the math.
Then I'm afraid to say, it reached the UK several years ago. (Perhaps decades.) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ask#Noun definition #2. (Definition #1 is the directly problematic one.)
I saw one commentator below mention quorn, but I think it depends on how this was done, presented and marketed.
Some top chefs do something approaching this - not quite at the molecular level in the way mentioned here, in a lab (although it's called molecular gastronomy), but nevertheless experimenting with different combinations and techniques. Artisanal experimentation vs industrial production.
