Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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With Japan, they only have so much inhabitable land anyway. It's a mountainous island where all viable land is already pretty much taken.
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I know, let's all move to Japan. Cheap real estate and no Cheeto.
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But we don't have an 80hr work week as the norm and we can piss off straight after work without feeling the need to have a beer with our colleagues or bosses.
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imagine being so racist that it forces your country to fall apart. they made their own bed, time for some laying in it.
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Isn't there a protection where there may not be any new Japanese births by 2050? That they'll essentially cease to be (pure Japanese)?
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That's a form of eugenics. More specifically, it would be classed as "positive social eugenics".
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The use of the term "positive" does not mean it is a "good" thing. It just means that individuals with percieved "desirable" traits are encouraged to mate more than the "undesirables". Conversely, an example of negative eugenics would be murdering/sterilizing the "undesirables"."Social eugenics" simply means that the "desirable" trait is not genetic, but rather a social construct, in this case wealth.
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Plus wealth generally means power and connections, all of which makes it easier for someone to get wealthy.
Microsoft would almost certainly have never become what it is if Bill Microsoft wasn't wealthy enough to have a family computer ahead of most people being able to have one at home, and his mother wasn't friends with an IBM chair.
Naturally, IBM would be much more likely to hire someone who comes with the recommendation of a higher-up than Afferige Mann, who is applying based on an ad in the paper, and has only worked retail.
Plus wealth gives a safety net. It didn't matter for Bill if the first few Microsofts failed, he can try again until he hits it big. Afferige has non-such luck. If he starts a company and it folds, he may not have the money to start another.
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Is this supposed to be a jab at people criticising Christianity? Because the same problems can be found in non-Christian countries, does not mean Christianity didn't have a role in what happened elsewhere
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I think plenty of them also think it’s far enough in the future that it won’t affect them (spoiler alert: it’s not)
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nothing about the idea of having children appeals to me in the slightest
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No, it's describing how fascists all share similar beliefs, no matter what you call it.
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Isn't it interesting that the more "developed" countries have the lowest birth rates.
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The problem with conspiracy theories is that they're trying to assign a single point of blame to a complete systemic failure. The feeling is that if we can simply find out who is doing this and boil it down to one person or one group we can then simply attack that group and solve all our problems. That's exactly the ox that fascism has yolked on its ride to power in every single generation.
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Not even the initial sexy time?
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Why not just promote immigration. America seems to not have that problem
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Oh no, not our out of control population growth fueled by resources running out as I type this comment and causing unspeakable damage to the biosphere of the planet.
Whatever will we do if our numbers fall below 7 billion.
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Housing is pretty good in Japan outside of Tokyo, especially if you don't mind a bit of a train ride
