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.

You could ask him instead of playing leapfrog with yourself.

The problem is the disparity in wealth and a shrinking middle class. Rich people have no problem reproducing, I think musk is on his 14th child.

Yeah. Only rich people should have exclusive access to women.

You seem sarcastic, but biologically speaking, the children of rich parents are much more likely to be born rich themselves. Isn't that a direction we want to evolve into for humanity, given that being born poor has so many negative outcomes?

If we can all be rich, then sure.

Otherwise it's just a tool to breed average people out of the gene pool. The end result are rulers and servants.

My first two kids were born in Japan, and they were actually pretty cheap. The local city gives you some money (a few thousand) when your child is born, and day care was good and super cheap, like $10 per day because it was subsidized.

It really wasn't very expensive.

This is not true, check out this podcast: https://youtu.be/Tk-XLP4PRNs

It’s easier to immigrate to Japan than the United States. There are lots of work visas and long term residency can be pretty quick with a professional position. Many of the clerks you see in Japan for ordinary jobs are immigrants from South Asia.

This is just like a stock crashing because the quarterly profits did not exceed the very high growth expectations more than a lot, they only exceeded a little.

From what i heard from people and read online, i really don't understand how people even do that. Japanese work etiquette is bananas. But that aside, my job is somewhat high demand, but i draw the line at work hours. I work 42 hours a week and not a second longer. That opens up enough times for some hobbies, enough free time and everything. But if i had kids, most of that would be gone. So if you're a work horse, you're expected to give up everything, except work and raising kids.

This problem is not isolated to Japan. Countries all across the world are facing the same issue and have been for a number of years.

Create a shitty, miserable, society with no rights or support, and people do not want to bring children into it.... who'd guess?