Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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There's a surprising amount of green for major cities that otherwise look like concrete jungles. There's usually plenty of parks and kids are in general very safe. Maybe this is just my comparison from originally living in the states, but it is super safe for children and the amount of expected unsupervised travel kids do in Japan is astonishing.
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In Japan they let kids go outside without supervision starting a really young age.
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this story comes out every so often about japan, rarely if ever mentions (slightly) lower births per woman in italy, china, spain, or the same 1.3 as poland, finland, canada
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_recent_value_desc=false
those are 2022 figures but i doubt there's been significant change
there's basically no first world country above the 2.1 replacement rate
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Do you have any links to studies/articles about that?
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I still don't understand the obsession. Not everything has to be a ponzi scheme where line go up. Things can shrink, it's ok. Not everything lasts forever. At some point you can abandon areas and let them decay.
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Yeah, we both would love to be able to be a one income household, but it's just but feasible.
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I'd say all those EU (and Canada) countries aren't striving to be the economic powerhouse that Japan is and China already has 1.5 billion people compared to Japan's 125 million. Plus most countries rely on immigration to make up the difference while I've heard (but maybe not true) that Japan is hard to immigrate to due to the disapproving culture toward foreigners.
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Just stats from a bunch of countries, look at the birthrate over the past 100 years to see the trend, even in Scandinavian countries where socio-economic equality is the highest. If you look at Canada there's quite a drop right as the pill was made available.
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I fully agree, but also, the whole concept of a pension plan only works if the next generation pays it forwards. Meaning this generation is paying for the current retired group, and no one will pay for them.
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Internet don't know the ethnic diversity of Brasil. They think the German descent community living here comes from a few nazi leaders who fled to Brasil. When in reality they cama in droves in 19th century andar still speak an old German dialect no longe spoke in German. We have huge communities of Italians, germans, spaniards, portuguese, chinese, japanese, Koreans, syrians, lebanese, nigerians, angolans, haitians, colombians, peruans, bolivians.
Brazil is not a ethnic homogeneous country. There are white people, brown people, asians, black people. The term "latino" don't make sense in Brazil. Brazilians don't use much less identify with it. Brazilian is just a nationality, don't mean anything ethnic. Brazilians can be anything. -
"It's so expensive to have children in Japan that birthrate is further declining."
I swear to God these people couldn't connect the dots with a GPS.
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I mean, the way things are now we'll be living 3-4 generations in a household anyway.
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It might be highest in Scandinavia, but you still see that one income households are rare there.
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Its monetary policy that has done it. The lost decade and all that, caused by the central banks.
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Thinks th gubberment is the problem, thinks we can know when house prices are too much for families to afford, but can't possibly know the same to figure out appropriate price caps, thinks we can't have centralized federal laws, "people should be able to build what they want, where they want when they want"... But developers should be given family homes when they become expensive so they can "replace them with apartments".
Look bud, we've seen these pro-Capialist libertarian "free" market solution already. Lots of what you've said has gotten America where it is today: to an unlivable oligarchy.
People want something different. I'm fine with Georgism, but the rest of what you've written is clearly thinly veiled Libertarian and Free Market economics.
You're just reproducing the ideology that benefits people like Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk - putting the wealthy in power.
I'd prefer a highly regulated, legally transparent, auditable, government system in power. Not people rich enough to build apartment blocks whenever and where ever they want.
Your ideas are incorrect and we're seeing that in realtime.
Libertarian like you are LYING when they say centralized systems can't work they're too inefficienct the most obvious way to disprove that idea is to look at the world wars, what happens to industry during world wars? It gets NATIONALISED. Centralized under government power, we do this in war time because it's highly efficient - dispite the free market propaganda you've been sold.
Where as Libertarian become traitors and mercenaries in war time. You may not realize it, but you're arguing for the wrong team, the team that lets Nazi in, and if they have enough money sits them in the position of advisors and department heads.
We want democracy, rights, the freedom of a garanteed place to live... By putting that in the hands of people with "no price caps on building anything anywhere" you're looking to destroy that freedom. You're taking security from the poor and exchanging it for freedom exclusively for the rich, developer cartels, and corporations.
So you're reproducing the system we're already in... That's not a solution. That's just reproducing the problem.
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Japan will prefer to extinguish itself rather than breaking up with tradition on those cultural points or work ethic and marriage/child rearing
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Be productive as in literally just that: produce the goods society uses to sustain itself. Intelligence is only one part of the equation here (the rest of it being energy, physical wellness, etc), and even that deteriorates shortly after retirement age when people enter their 70s.
Also I have no issue with swear words, but just spamming them doesn't substitute for an actual basis for your argument. Unless you want 70 YO people to work factory production lines, they are for all societal purposes unproductive.
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They actually have quite a bunch of programmes to bring foreigners in. That's not to say that the cultural issues aren't there but that's a separate problem regarding integration rather than immigration.
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fair enough. i picked those out as sort of 'mainstream' countries that this kind of article doesn't get published about, while i've seen them about japan a few times now. be interesting to contrast immigration rates to countries with similarly difficult language and cultural barriers but that's a bigger job i haven't the time for now
to this article's credit it does end with a couple of paragraphs on the korean government attempts to support "work-family balance, childcare and housing"
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But that's the thing, unless you force women to not work, most will still choose to work. Divorce becoming accepted is part of the equation at well, if you might end up single again you won't stay home and be left without any income in you become separated.
There's a whole lot of things mixed up together but in the end the stats are clear everywhere where countries develop, as women gain rights, birthrate lowers.
