Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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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.
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I love that movie, except for the premise which is actually based on eugenetics.
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If you want people to actually be able to have a family, you need to enable that. My understanding of Japanese society is that you have medium to no personal freedom over how you spend your time, and meeting people is difficult. It feels like they are so intent on shooting themselves in the foot, and then complaining about their foot hurting.
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Warning: swear language ahead
Da fuck "productive" is, for fuck's sake. Anyone thought of not running human intelligence into fucking ground over a period of... what? Roughly 60 - 20 = 40 years?
Or what, humans can't think after retirement age because <insert some bullshit>?
You absolutely can have any percentage of <insert random age group>, provided human wellbeing is being taken care of, constantly and in all aspects
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While I do not share the sentiment of "let them finally die", I am very curious what will win: wanting to survive as a country and society or that bullshit worldview they are known for by anyone who learns anything more about Japan than just cool tech-anime-sake combo
I do hope they will change and survive. Ikkyu Sojun has earned a very special place in my heart (the one, who was a monk, son of emperor, who got a particular letter from his mother that is now famous among anyone who learns anything about Buddhism in Japan)
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they are literally killing their own population growth with their racist national policies, I'm not killin em, but hey, sucks to suck
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South America in general. Peru even had a president named Fujimori not that long ago.
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Oh, you mean like Karoshi? The term that translates to "overwork death"? Good times. Good times.
