Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
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I love my kids and my life with them
No one gives a shit about your preferences.
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It's what follows education. It's the largely uneducated areas of the world that still raw dog like there's no tomorrow.
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Literally: they don't go home, that's how
Hearing about salary men sleeping on the streets or in train stations is one thing, but when I actually finally saw them in person it broke my fucking brain
Imagine the homelessness issues of a major Californian city but instead of homeless people it's a bunch of clearly drunk dudes in suits who all vanish by morning
My wife cried hard because the realization hit that hard
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i heard there's more sexy time without kids
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your preferences about my preferences can suck my balls
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where all viable land is already pretty much taken.
Very much untrue, the actual issue with living away from one of the major cities is the same thing the US is dealing with: capitalism and a highway system (HSR there) encouraging suburban sprawl and the death of the small town. No need to visit 5 different shops in your small town if you're going to pass a Donqi on your train ride into work. Then people eventually just move away from the smaller towns entirely to be closer to where the work and businesses are, and the cycle deepens
Although yeah, Japan is about 2/3 as big as California so it's not as big as people think on top of that
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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I don't disagree, but the systems necessary to make this happen non-destructively just do not exist.
BTW, you may like the limits to growth study.
https://archive.org/details/TheLimitsToGrowthAlthough it is kind of a downer. In the 70s, they predicted the downfall of society. We're on track with the prediction, more or less.
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it's a good thing some people like kids because otherwise im not sure what happens
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Some body get this guy a Netflix special. This joke is so good.
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That's exactly what I'm saying
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Its hyped by FT and more economy driven outlets because it makes them nervous. The replacement rate of births was always enough to support retirement pension plans. Now it's not.
Japan is way ahead of the curve on this inevitable trend than other countries so it will be really interesting see how it adjusts and what markets are affected by this.
In terms of buying a house, is remote work really not a thing in Japan? Living in a remote village sounds lime a dream. Otherwise, are there no towns/villages where foreigners sort of band together and are allowed to buy property? Just curious about how Japan functions
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So apparently under Sharia law, Muslim men can have anal sex with a girl under 8, and vaginal with a girl over 8.
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Seems super likely that capitalism is going to be a major factor in our extinction. Maybe we could have a bit less of it and actually survive as a species
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At least in the US those are basically the same thing
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You heard right
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That is still miles better than japan, I could actually work towards that. To get japanese citizenship I would need to be born again
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Get to work juice boys!
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I believe Japan has less inequality than the US. Not sure on that, but I think it's true. I think in this case we see work culture playing a role. The only country in the world with a worse work culture than the US is Japan. No one has time to even think about having kids when you are a company man there. It's similar in the US.
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You can tell capitalism is super efficient and sustainable by how it totally collapses without fresh babies to sacrifice.
