Fortunately, our eldest princess is very smart, and after thinking about it very seriously, she probably understood what Liu Xu meant.

"Don't you just want to say that the benefits of having children are not as good as paying? Why can't you speak human language? The eldest princess said angrily.

"Just say I'm right!" Liu Xu said with a smile.

"This ......" the eldest princess's tone was sluggish, and finally nodded and said, "Your words have indeed touched the core, it is no longer ancient times, and the return of having a child is far less than the pay, which is indeed the reason why many housewives give up." ”

"Then you know, why is the return less than the effort now?" The eldest princess asked, continuing to look at Liu Xu expectantly, this time the other party should always say the answer he wanted.

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Then she heard Liu Xu say, "This is because of the rapid development of social productive forces!" ”

"......" Hearing this answer, the eldest princess felt that her whole person was numb again, and what was even more uncomfortable.

The answer before, the eldest princess herself was able to understand after thinking about it a little.

But now the answer in Liu Xu's mouth, the eldest princess couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time, what is the relationship between the rapid development of social productivity and the decline in fertility?

"Shouldn't the rapid development of social productive forces lead to a decrease in the cost of raising the population?" The eldest princess couldn't help but ask.

"On the face of it, it is!" Liu Xu nodded and said, "The rapid development of the productive forces of society has promoted the development of agriculture and industry, so that the products that everyone can produce have been significantly improved, so that everyone's income has risen, and the price of agricultural products has fallen, and it should theoretically be easier to feed children!" ”

However, in actual social activities, the rapid development of social productive forces cannot all fall on agricultural products and other necessities of life. Because society cannot consume excessive amounts of agricultural products, the productive forces that have developed in society at present are actually transferred to a greater variety of non-essential materials for survival. ”

"So in the last 50 years, human beings have invented and created many products outside of survival. For example, a large number of convenient electrical appliances were invented, such as televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, etc. “

"There are also transportation products, and a large number of cars and bicycles are made"

"Even food is no longer satisfied with the basic role of the stomach, but there are many secondary processed agricultural products such as alcohol and snacks!"

"There is also more demand in terms of spiritual culture, and many film companies have emerged in society, and a large number of movies and TV series have been filmed. For example, what I'm working on is spiritual. ”

"In ancient times, productivity was very low, and even the most basic survival needs could not be met, so naturally there were no other more needs, and the cost of raising a child was actually only the most basic food, and nothing else was needed."

"Now, with the development of social productive forces, more social products other than survival necessities are provided to human beings, so that they will naturally pursue a higher quality of life, satisfy more of their desires, and then consume a large amount of social productive forces on themselves, pushing up the cost of a person's consumption."

Liu Xu gushed endlessly, looking at the expression of the eldest princess, it seemed that she was becoming more and more confused, so she explained more interestedly, "Let me explain it more vividly." ”

"Suppose that the minimum consumption required for a person's survival is 1, and the social productivity is 10,000. In ancient times, 10,000 productive people could feed 10,000 people. ”

"In modern times, with the development of science and technology and society, the social productivity has increased tenfold to 100,000."

But at this time, a person no longer wants to just have a minimum consumption, she wants to drink, she wants to drive, she wants to live in a better house, she wants to watch movies, she wants to buy all kinds of luxury bags! The consumption of her life alone in society has actually reached 20. ”

"So the social productivity has reached 100,000, but in the end it can only feed 5,000 people."

"That's why I say that the fundamental reason is in the development of social productive forces!" Liu Xu sighed and said, he couldn't help but recall Huaxia.

In the seventies, eighties and twenties in China, the desire to have children was actually very strong, because at that time, the cost of living was just food, there was no other excessive consumption, and everyone wanted to have more children. Because you only need to take care of food when you have a child, you don't have to worry about other things such as education, buying a house, etc., giving birth to one and earning one.

But later, the milk powder money alone is enough for many couples who are not well-off to make careful calculations, not to mention the future school district housing, make-up fees, and children's houses and cars.

But in fact, the real cost of raising a child has not increased, 300 yuan a can of imported milk powder can feed a child, 10 yuan a pound of Wuchang rice ground into rice noodles, and then mixed with water to soak, the same can feed the child.

At the same time, under the compulsory education system, children's tuition fees are completely free, as long as you don't pick a school and don't make up classes, your child's education cost can actually be about zero.

Although it is likely that the child can only enter the factory to screw or go to the construction site to move bricks when he grows up, the income is higher than that of the white-collar workers in those offices.

As for getting married and having children in the future, if you don't want to have children yourself, then why do you still think about whether the children will get married in the future and whether they will have children?

All in all, the cost of raising a child, whether it is high or low, actually depends on the parents themselves.

Well, it's a bit off-topic, and our eldest princess fell into a deep silence after listening to Liu Xu's words. In fact, she has already investigated and thought very carefully in the face of the great crisis of the empire's population, and thinks that she has found the key and answer to the problem.

But when Liu Xu gave herself such an analysis, the eldest princess suddenly found that the answer she was looking for seemed to be wrong.

The answer that I have been thinking about for decades is not as good as the 18-year-old young man in front of me, which is simply outrageous.

However, thinking that the young man in front of him can write a sociological masterpiece like "Princess Huanzhu", the eldest princess seems to be able to accept this result.

"Then, according to your analysis, how should the empire solve this problem?" The eldest princess couldn't help but ask.

"It can't be solved!" Liu Xu shook his shoulders and said, "This is the inevitability of social development, as long as the society develops, the population will inevitably decline after passing the peak." The stronger the civilization, the smaller the population per unit area, until a dynamic equilibrium between productivity and population is reached, a trend that no human means can stop. ”

"Of course, if you have to change, it's not impossible!" Liu Xu said.

"What's the solution?" The eldest princess couldn't help but ask, and the whole person couldn't help but stick to Liu Xu's side.

"Ahem!" Liu Xu coughed, and then said, "The first way is to discover the new world, as long as you can have the new world, the large resources of the new world can lead to a sharp increase in social productivity in a short period of time, and under the condition that the consumption of human resources remains the same, it will naturally be able to produce more population." ”

"The second way is simpler, which is to increase the consumption of the population, and if you can't increase the total amount, then find a way to consume some of the population that the society does not need."

"For example, starting a large-scale war and putting a large number of military households on the battlefield, this can not only consume our military households, but also the opponent's military households, and as long as we can win the war, then the enemy's world will belong to us, and we will be able to obtain more social productivity by exploiting the opponent, feed more people, and finally achieve population increase!"

"How's that, isn't it particularly easy?"

(End of chapter)