Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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I'm guessing that they mean extending access to Japanese citizenship to descendants of Japanese expats abroad. Brazil in particular had a substantial wave of Japanese settlers in the early 1900s.
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Carrying capacity of the earth is something like 15 billion with current technology, our wastefulness and overconsumption (of the rich, globally speaking) is the problem. Which reduction in population can mitigate, but not fix
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This. I could in theory get japanese citizenship but only if my grandpa had registered my mother when she was born, and she had registered me. But if you miss that, no more chances
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Who mentioned black people?
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Japan will literally collapse into fire before they allow immigration
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incoherent Japanese screeching
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That's a win win, as theyre probably getting a big cash payment when struggling, and the state bank then gets to relist the home.
I like your ideas, but where do they live once they get foreclosed on by the State?
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Other system are more stable, Egypt lasted for thousands of years, the Ottoman Empire was fairly stable without growth for a 1000. Capitalism is the the system were part of the profit is reinvested into new machinery 'for efficiency' to undercut competition. Once we do not have competition because there are only 2 or 3 companies (Coke and Pepsi), they fix prices and work to corrupt government to become an Oligarchy. This is why people make the state that we are entering a 'post capital' world.
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But do we want to keep heading to capacity? We could have artificial scarcity eliminated with wealth redistribution and waste reduction (cars, fast fashion, many many etc). The more humans on the earth, the less possible this becomes.
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I think it's entirely possible if we reduce waste and redistribute wealth. The US pays farmers to NOT grow food to keep the price up. Total insanity.
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Egypt lasted for thousands of years,
It's called "ancient Egypt" for convenience's sake, but it's not just one continuous state; it's many states that either succeeded or competed with each other as the country went through cycles of rise, decline, fragmentation and reunification. For a more familiar example think of it as another, much smaller China.
the Ottoman Empire was fairly stable without growth for a 1000.
Uh... No?
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If wage growth went up at the same rate as GDP, one part time worker could support multiple elderly people
Then prices would have to go up at the same rate, and one part time worker would not be able to support multiple elderly people at a reasonable quality of life. It's not about money; under capitalism money is a shorthand for how much power one has in and over society and isn't directly convertible into useful goods at a constant rate. What you need to be looking at is total productivity, because that's the bottleneck here. If X working people can only make Y things a day and X+Z people need 2Y things a day to survive then a society with X working people and Z non-working people can't survive.
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The boundaries changed, plagues came through. But politically it was mostly stable-ish of sorts ¯_(ツ)_/¯ as an economic system
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I’ll have you know I intend to keep using Covid as an excuse for bad decisions well into 2040
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World population is projected to peak out at about 10 billion, likely less because of climate change, so we won't be getting much closer to the 15 bil limit anyway.
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I get what you're saying, but I feel like you are ignoring how much automation has allowed one person to do the work of many in the recent past. If allowed, this should continue to improve.
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They use their profits from the house sale (which may be substantial depending on how long they've been there + market inflation), to rent somewhere.
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I still don't understand how a falling population leads to a society crumbling.
The only thing a reduction in population does is make domestic labor more expensive. If that increase in expense outpaces the product of your society, that's not on the population, that's on the sustainability of the society.
And that's only the capitalist way of looking at it.
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But I bet they will continue to work people to the bone as a point of pride...like I wonder what could be contributing to this problem.
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Supporting the older, non-working, population is expensive. You need enough workers paying in to those systems that support them.
