I wonder what is going to happen to them. Where would they go?

Doesn’t matter if you disagree. Marxism, like The Reformation, was based on a Christian understanding of how the world should be. Christian interpretation of the good life was what made peasants confront the feudal system. It pitted the nobles against the peasants, because the peasants were asking for equity or egalitarian treatment. Luther himself only wanted to reform the Church, but ordinary Christians had a much deeper idea of reform that was beyond what Martin Luther advocated. Christianity is subversion of hierarchy and dominance. Marxism, therefore the Bolshevik Revolution, is the same pattern. There is no similar historical pattern between Europe, which was dominated by Christianity, and that of non-Christian lands. There was no revolution against any class of people in Asia or Africa. They were simply anti-colonialist and nationalist. It is a false equivalency to equate communism with liberation from colonialist who were capitalist. Capitalism itself isn’t a state. You can’t call it communism by having billionaires and millionaires permitted to exist, and nurtured, in a totalitarian system that claims it is communism. It simply isn’t communism. Nationalism isn’t universal. That is why communism was said to fail, and created off-shoots like fascism, a socialist variant that was anti-communist, and nationalist. Even the original concept of socialism was a universal cause, not based on nation states. The US thought that the communist ideology would coalesce into a unified alliance, but nothing of the sort happened. Communist Vietnamese fought the Communist Chinese. Even US and the USSR division is argued as something based on security competition, not ideology. The USSR itself was under the control of Russia over nations of people such as Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, etc. The USSR had to control rancorous peoples who did not identify as communist, even less, Russian.

Chinese Marxism or Chinese Communism is just collectivism. Marxism uses Christian existential precepts. Chinese are just nationalist with collectivist culture. That’s it. Chinese were agrarian during the Cultural Revolution, therefore, there was no revolution against the rich, or the elites. Marxism takes its tropes from the Christian Bible of the rich, and powerful oppressing the poor, and downtrodden; The rich neglecting the poor, and takes the same existential dualism of the Bible. Americans misunderstood and failed to differentiate between Communism in Europe, and that of Asian and African communism during the Cold War. Vietnamese Communism was really collective nationalism with strong centralized governing; the same nationalism that defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu. To understand communism at its root is to be saturated in Christian assumptions of existence. It is no wonder that foreign communism became just a variant of nationalism. They have no rooted understanding of why communism began.

Collectivism in layers: Culture and governance

Japan: Collectivist culture, market economy, government that mimics Western democracy.

South Korea: Collectivist culture, market economy, government that mimics Western democracy

China: Collectivist culture and collectivist government. Communism the Chinese way, simply means collectivism, the Chinese way. Collectivism can involve militarism, capitalism, socialist, or any variation of things, as long it is nationalist.

What about all that cheap labor from across the border? California could be saving big.

The reason for the birth decline is the change of the culture from both male and female working. The liberals and feminist convinced people that an ambitious woman does not need to beg her husband for money, instead they can just go to the workforce themselves, and become independent. The purpose of marriage is largely lost, and that is why marriage is coincidently lower, too. China, for example, use to have a dominant culture of the women only needing to marry a man, but since Chinese women are working too, they have no real need for a husband, and their career, and money become the priority. Work attachment is essential for increased wages. The longer a worker is attached to the work force, the higher the chance they take up better paying jobs. The culture has changed, plain, and simple. It has nothing to do with affordability or free daycare.