Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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requiring 100 year multi-generational loans
This is the first I've heard of this and the fact that it's real is insane to me.
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Its not capitalism that causes the over leveraged ponzi scheme, its the lender of last resort they call the Bank of Japan.
In a capitalist lending system you wouldn't get bailed out for making risky loans, so there wouldn't be the moral hazard, or the heightened cantillon effect to profit off debt accumulation.
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The major shareholders have voted down your proposal.
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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
