Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professor
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️no idea what I was thinking
Your subconscious was farming those up-doots.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
It's more of a murder/suicide
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It's more of a murder/suicide
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes you are right. I think there is a bell curve of murder culpability that starts at jeff bezo's wedding and ends at children starving to death.
No that's wrong bell curves measure the mean and that would just be the working class. Idk what I'm trying to describe. Jeff bezos should volunteer to lead the first human expedition to set foot on the sun. There makes sense now -
Oh yes! Anything but immigration!
But seriously, I feel like this is the broad sentiment of Japanese and the non-Japanese alike. Anti- immigration right applaud Japan for "keeping their country theirs" (as if ethnic Japanese aren't the ones who came later and displaced the local Ainus already living there), and not going on supposed national suicide, unlike the West. Not having enough babies is tantamount to suicide anyway. The narrative then becomes: either allow immigration and go on national and cultural suicide; or don't allow immigration and not have enough babies, which is still considered national suicide. Either way is committing national suicide.
I am not naive to think that immigration has no baggage; but at the same time, if countries want to increase birth rate, then increase the wages and standard of living for young people and families to encourage more people to marry and raise families. However, the elites aren't going to do the former because they don't want to disappoint their shareholders. If they don't want to do that, then allow more immigration, which they also don't want to do.
I completely sympathize with the Japanese view about immigration. Their society has a lot going for it which is held up by the culture. And diversity would lead to a tragedy of the commons in many cases, like keeping public spaces clean.
However, sacrificing your elders is not exactly Japan’s culture either.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
In the grande scheme of things, philosophically speaking, maybe.
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Does he see the same solution for old people everywhere, or just Japan? Seems like anyone can become a professor nowadays. There used to be standards, dammit!
Remember ‘dinosaurs’ by Jim henson. Yeet grandma in the swap
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In the grande scheme of things, philosophically speaking, maybe.
Well that works for me. The life of the mind is all I have anyway.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
no
proof provided in your continued posting on lemmy
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Does he see the same solution for old people everywhere, or just Japan? Seems like anyone can become a professor nowadays. There used to be standards, dammit!
wrote last edited by [email protected]it's a lot less controversial when phrased as euthanasia should be an option as a part of palliative care ...
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proof provided in your continued posting on lemmy
Oh that's just to ameliorate the insanity; I'm fully resigned to the inevitability of my death and factual nature of my contribution, however minor it may be, to our collective demise
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Pro-life website. The article is probably not worth reading lmao.
Doesn't sound very "pro-life" to me. But then their self-identification was always a severe misnomer.
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I don't speak Japanese, but if you follow the link to the video it starts about 18 minutes into the 20 minutes video. The professor says something and then everyone laughs.
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Actual Japanese here, even within the dark humor context, I wholeheartedly agree with Yusuke Narita.
It's precisely the gerontocracy in Japan why the nation is heading extremely far right. The aging oppressive population needs to retire, vacate, and leave the younger generation capable of making their choices. We are the lowest GDP first nation because of elders oppressing.
I'm glad Yusukeさん is in the 🇺🇲, but I’m afraid he’ll be deathcamped soon.
I'm thankful 28 folks read the article correctly. Fuck oppression.
What on Earth is with the links.
A link to a Lemmy micro-opinion, a link to a Sega video, and a link to some random article.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
That's one of the funniest lines I've heard today ty
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What on Earth is with the links.
A link to a Lemmy micro-opinion, a link to a Sega video, and a link to some random article.
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The links have other links to sources, so nested sources.
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The Sega video has citations on how our economy got dwindled by greedy kusojijii forcing us to work for longer hours and years than they ever did.
I'm too overworked to find you an encapsulating video essay on how spiralled to death our economy got fucked over by our boomers.
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Yusuke Narita lives in 🇺🇲. The article references folks ICE has abducted that maybe legal Japanese-US citizens, on their way to whichever deathcamp Trump sent these workers to.
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That's one of the funniest lines I've heard today ty
You're welcome, I was surprised to see I'd written it. Could use polish, but you can never go home again I suppose
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I think we should all have dots in our hands and when it glows at the age of 30 we enter the Carousel to be renewed.
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I think we should all have dots in our hands and when it glows at the age of 30 we enter the Carousel to be renewed.
Renew! Renew!
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho?
Your comment made me so sad that we kinda are in a more capitalist way.
We're withholding meds from old people by taking away their health insurance, not giving them any income, and pushing them into the street.
In the US, Social Security benefits is from $553-$943.
Boy we are so fucked.
