Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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Thanks for that. Sounds like it's still not great for women there, which I bet makes a difference to couples decisions about family planning. I know if I was a woman in a country like that, I would not have kids or move to a country where I could have kids and a life for me.
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You associate how every you like but I wouldn't just hand evangelicals the title they so desperately desire.
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No one has time for family in Japan
When I watch yt videos about people leaving the workplace at 10pm, I wonder how suicide rate is way higher
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yeah, racism is totally cool, if it isn’t here /s
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We might even expand it to all private ownership, maybe…
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This. I think there's so much to love about Japan, especially the cultural leaning towards doing everything with respect, dignity, and skill.
But the megacorpos definitely won in exploiting that, and the general social pressure revolving around workplace culture there is genuinely terrifying to me.
As a US person, our corporate-brainwash culture is awful too, but I'm glad we're seeing bigger working class pushes to tell our employers "Go kick rocks. My family is more important."
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Well-said. They don't see people as people, they see them as farm stock plotted on spreadsheets that they can manipulate by pulling levers.
And happiness just isn't a variable they would ever think of pulling a lever to increase. In fact I suspect they see a lack of it as an effective motivator, as long as it's managed properly through division and distraction, and those desperately upset little data points don't start assembling guillotines.
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Give them some days off.
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nazis like you aren’t welcome here. go back to being a human or stop wasting oxygen.
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America has a individualist culture. Thats why we have unions and stuff and don't have to blow our bosses ego until 11pm every night.
Japan has a very..conformity driven culture. You conform to expectations around you, or you get ostracized heavily and treated like an outsider.
Which is a big driver for this kind of "I ahve to work till 5, then drink with my boss/coworkers until midnight, because if I dont I'll lose my job and be ostracized" stuff.
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I mean, any system collapses if you don't have the people to actively participate in it.
I'm not saying that as a defense of capitalism, more so as pointing out how dumb your comment is.
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There's a reason so much anime these days is a salaryman dying on the job and reincarnating into a fantasy world.
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I think I like the premise a bit more than the show. Zom 100 is about a kid who starts a soul crushing office job only to become the happiest guy alive after the zombie apocalypse starts and he realizes he doesn’t need to go to work anymore.
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It's got nothing to do with megacorps, that's just run of the mill Japanese culture/society.
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I don't think any social/political structure would survive without a birth rate
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I wasn't really being serious, I knew you were talking about developed nations.
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Babies are expensive and time consuming to develop into useful serfs. The US is not yet hitting most of the consequences from low birth rates because it’s balanced out by immigration. As long as they keep encouraging and welcoming immigration ….
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U.S dwelling Christian anarchist here.
I'm sorry for your clearly terrible experiences with so-called "christians" that bought into the americapitalist death cult.
But nah, there's plenty of Christians here that actually read the source material and we're trying our best out here.
We're just harder to spot because we're busy trying to love our neighbor(everyone) and facilitate peace and hope, imperfect as we may be. But we're trying.
They don't build mega/(maga?)churches for people like that. These folks don't get featured on the news, or end up in positions of power, because if they get the chance, they talk about the "Love your enemies" and "The rich won't enter Heaven" Jesus of the Gospel, not "supply-side God will make you rich Jesus."
They're not trying to force theocratic policy, or sling hatred, or act obnoxious in the streets, and they're definitely not wearing stupid little red hats.
If you encounter one of us, you might not even realize it. If we're doing a good job, we're somebody who "looks like they could help.", someone you can trust, and will show you an unusual amount of kindness for someone you barely know.
If it comes around to it, we'll share the Bible as a gift, like how anyone nerds out about what they love, not use it as a bludgeoning instrument.
We're incredibly angry about the State Religion calling itself "evangelical", and we're right there with you in opposing these monsters doing the works of Hell.
The churches of the early United States were straight up based. For real, the tophats and monacles of the day thought churches were a leftist threat, and basically systematically undermined them and warped them into capitalism's ardent apologists we see today. (See: "Behind the Bastards: How the Rich Ate Christianity. It's mind blowing.)
Anyway, much love, stay safe out there.
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