I'm not sure why all the sarcasm. I mean, America's problems have all been solved.

I mean, Japan is one of the more isolationist countries on earth. And racism is a massive issue. Christianity isn't a major factor, but traditional views on the roles of women and the set up of the household are a major challenge.

This is an interesting point. So apparently the problems of having that terrible working culture are solved for (ish) to promote procreation, but it's not helping. Gee, I wonder if possibly creating a society of miserable people and making it easier for them to create more people they presume will be miserable doesn't work because they just don't want to do that.

If you didn't notice, those aren't Christian values.

Dude, Japan is so safe the cops are largely overglorified tourist and traffic guides. The kids run around alone all the time.

Japanese don’t. Unless it’s one of them in blackface.

Seriously, the racism there is painful.

Ah yeah I assumed you meant the extreme interpretations of Christian values.

The problems over there are the same problems Americans are starting to rekon with. That's why you see Vance and his ilk push for this fetishize version of the American dream where every MAGA male gets their own concubine.

Other comments had it so I didn't think it was necessary. Immigration can prop up a low birthrate but that can't last forever. Need to actually have a culture that supports procreation. And Japan doesn't really have that. Their work culture is directly responsible for it. I don't think that's something easily fixed. Financial incentives could help, but unless it's pretty hefty it probably wouldn't be enough.

And also, new technology is still being developed

So it's not even that all progress has stopped, things are still moving forwards

alot of asian countries, china, korea are very similar. china only allows less than 20k/year to become citizens, thier stipulation is you giving up your citizenship of other countries.

knew a chinese student at a university that was from chile, born there.

its mostly working 80+hrs a week, plus you have to have drinks after work with the boss,+ all the busy work. and then theres the child rear aspect, woman recieves very little if any support for being a mom, often time its chatised. and lastly HCOL.

pretty much the same in korea, i think korea is slightly worst off, china is beginning to see its effects too, they already trying to change that by "encouraging more sex", but they arnt solving the underlying issue, which is the one-child policy that devastated the female to male ratio and HCOL. and they also have harsh work ethic.

countries have mostly abandoned climate action change,

i heard alot of them get"abandoned" because theres no one left, or they commit crimes to get taken care of in prison.

Try "to function as a society" when the biosphere becomes unlivable. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

• https://phys.org/news/2023-04-population-growth-main-driver-carbon.html
• https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2017/07/co2_saved/giv-3902H9Q7lx2HE5M7/

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced, is a good thing.

You mean eugenics, but it shouldn't be an ideological position, reality in this case is that intelligence is actually very inheritable, around three quarters is a summary of decades of research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

Only morons think we're overpopulated.

It doesn't have to ONLY be inherited for the effect to be present, it's about 75% inherited, which is quite enough for a scifi premise to stand up better than most scifi plots.