The Chinese government has been pushing propaganda to increase birth rates yet the birth rate keeps declining. If you look at Chinese social media you'll see that modern Chinese young people are making fun of the government propaganda.
Social credit system is not likely to work for as long as the opportunity costs of having kids outweighs whatever punishments the government hands out for not having kids. And in a modern market economy the opportunity cost of having a child is huge indeed.
Cultural change is hard. It is very hard. If it was easy, the USSR would have succeeded in creating the New Soviet Man instead of generations of super cynical people.
Social credit system is not likely to work for as long as the opportunity costs of having kids outweighs whatever punishments the government hands out for not having kids. And in a modern market economy the opportunity cost of having a child is huge indeed.
Cultural change is hard. It is very hard. If it was easy, the USSR would have succeeded in creating the New Soviet Man instead of generations of super cynical people.