Chapter 872: Artificial Womb

Yang Qing's words can be said to nakedly display the inequality between men and women.

It also shattered the glass hearts of countless female rights advocates.

Yin Yue angrily shouted.

"Does that mean we women can only be men's dependents?"

"Are we women inherently inferior to men by a head?"

"We women do not accept it."

"You can accept it or not."

Yang Qing said somewhat impatiently.

"What does 'dependent' mean?"

"Is there no difference in speaking rights among women?"

"If your company's boss is female, does that make you her dependent?"

"This is just different social divisions of labor, with different pay for different divisions."

"Doing assembly-line work while wishing for an engineer's salary?"

"Ask the engineers if they're willing."

"Or let engineers do engineering work but receive assembly-line wages—would the engineers be willing?"

"The principle is clear: what benefits you want, you must bear the corresponding responsibilities."

"Don't do assembly-line work and just, based on a single word 'fair,' expect to enjoy the same treatment as a general manager."

"Isn't that too idealistic?"

Yin Yue, after being rebutted by Yang Qing, momentarily couldn't find words to counter.

She could only press on.

"Other countries can do it; why can't we?"

Yang Qing questioned.

"What do you want to say?"

Yin Yue.

"Gao Lu treats women very well."

Yang Qing chuckled.

"Are you saying they don't allow paternity testing there?"

"Regardless of whether it's your own child, you still have to raise it?"

"Or are you saying Gao Lu has long maternity leave and high divorce alimony?"

"Why don't you look at Gao Lu's marriage rate?"

"Maternity leave? It's not just for women—men have it too."

"What truly boosts their birth rate is subsidies for children."

"They give money to children every month."

"Not to women."

"Even so, Gao Lu people are unwilling to have children, and what truly raises Gao Lu's birth rate is immigration."

"Gao Lu has now changed its complexion."

"A large number of immigrants came over, and because life was difficult, they just kept having children."

"They survive by having children."

"Some even have over ten."

"Is this really good for women?"

"Constant reproduction does great harm to women."

"Would you be willing to have children, disregarding your own health, for just a thousand or two a month?"

"You wouldn't, would you?"

"Those who think like you are the locals of Gao Lu."

"So, for similar living conditions, whether to have children or not—still not having them."

"As an ordinary woman, do you want to be forced by life into becoming a reproductive tool?"

"Resource allocation? Do you think that's necessarily good?"

"Economic hardship—choosing not to have children is also a form of self-protection."

"Letting those with good economic conditions have children is also a kind of resource optimization."

"Now it's different from before; previously most people had land, at least enough to eat."

"Nowadays, everyone is a worker; if you don't work today, you'll go hungry tomorrow."

"How can one have children under such conditions?"

"Better to live freely; don't let your life be nothing but suffering."

"If you truly want to change this situation, you'd better hope our industrial upgrade succeeds."

"If the industrial upgrade succeeds, it can directly improve our income level."

"When life isn't so hard for everyone, people will naturally be willing to have children."

Yin Yue was again subjected to a barrage, and she felt completely unwell.

She was trying to speak about women's rights.

But Yang Qing pressed her onto the topic of childbirth.

What she originally thought—birth rate and aging—was a strong support.

But he was beaten up badly by Yang Qing.

One can say, a utter defeat.

You are doing this, teaching people not to have children.

How many people with a good economy does Daxia have?

Is it 30%?

After subtracting the elderly and children, how many eligible men and women are there?

Is it 100 million?

Dividing 100 million into men and women leaves only 50 million.

Out of 50 million, do 10 million truly marry and want to have children?

Even those 10 million can't just have children whenever they want, so we only have a few million newborns per year?

With such a low birth rate, we're heading for big trouble.

If that's really the case, you are a sinner of Daxia.

That guy's guess is really accurate.

Isn't the future going to be this grim?

But he won't take the blame for this.

Everyone is an adult now, miss, you don't really think that with just my two sentences I can sway the whole nation, do you?

If that's really the case, we can only say the trend is like this.

I won't accept this blame.

Alright, you don't need to keep putting labels on me here.

To dispel everyone's panic about the future, I'm giving everyone encouragement.

I've said the low birth rate trend cannot be changed.

But society is progressing, others have no way.

That doesn't mean we can't change it either.

With social development and intensifying conflicts between men and women, women's desire to have children will only get lower.

Having children will become a major problem.

Relying on natural balance is too passive.

Artificial reproduction technology will inevitably become the mainstream of the future.

I am here to talk about a very important technology.

That is the artificial uterus.

The artificial uterus can solve most of the gender conflicts in society.

It can be a blessing for those who want to have children and those who don't.

At the same time, the artificial uterus can also break the family notion; everyone is machine-born, in the future collective upbringing is possible, no one will inherit the family's wealth and rights, and the natural allure of wealth and rights will also diminish. At that time, people will naturally value their own lives more.

By then, society will have far fewer conflicts.

This could be the cornerstone of the future Great Harmony Society.

Having children in the future will no longer be a troublesome problem for everyone.

Enjoying life is what matters.

So the future is very good; there's no need to overly worry about low birth rates and aging.

As for this technology, it will definitely achieve a breakthrough within ten years and be fully mature within twenty years.

In other words, in the next fifty years, human society will undergo massive changes.

Concepts like husband and wife, parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts will become things of the past.

Such a society can not only meet women's needs but also meet men's needs.

Women no longer need to worry about childbirth, and men no longer need to worry about children's education and marriage.

Earn your own money, spend it yourself, enjoy a good life.

With fewer worries, there won't be so many conflicts between spouses.

Miss, is this result acceptable?

Arguing about what discrimination here may be meaningless.

Social development can easily solve the things we think are difficult.

As for now, arguing back and forth is useless.

Social foundations determine social rights.

No matter how we talk, we can't change anything.

At most we can clear up everyone's doubts.

They also won't change their behavior because of what we say.