Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professor
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You first, buddy
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Orrrr (and this applies to most western countries in the near future too) they could maybe kinda consider not creating conditions in which its fucking impossible to have kids?
As someone in a western country now inconceivable! Heck we still have a good portion of Americans who complain about the living standards but will stay home in November or actively vote for things like deporting immigrants like that magically fixes the over arching problem
56 is the median age for home buyers in 2025 and it’s been this way for a very long time.
We’re as doomed as Japan honestly we just happen to encourage immigration lol. So I agree with you.
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Pro-life website. The article is probably not worth reading lmao.
wrote last edited by [email protected]EUTHANASIA / ASS SUICIDE
Their proofreading skills check out.
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Actual Japanese here, even within the dark humor context, I wholeheartedly agree with Yusuke Narita.
It's precisely the gerontocracy in Japan why the nation is heading extremely far right. The aging oppressive population needs to retire, vacate, and leave the younger generation capable of making their choices. We are the lowest GDP first nation because of elders oppressing.
I'm glad Yusukeさん is in the 🇺🇲, but I’m afraid he’ll be deathcamped soon.
I'm thankful 28 folks read the article correctly. Fuck oppression.
People tend to conservadorism as they age, due to cognitive decline and loss of plasticity of the brain. It's a global phenomenon and usually make them make bad decisions in regards to what's best for the public or public interest.
That's why I think there must be age limit to occupy public lidership roles.
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Does he see the same solution for old people everywhere, or just Japan? Seems like anyone can become a professor nowadays. There used to be standards, dammit!
Being generous to him, few places have such a stereotype of people being willing to take his advice as Japan. By which I mean, for 90% of the world, stating his opinion is even more pointless.
On The Other Hand, maybe he just wanted to try to get people to do it for his own gratification, and picked the most vulnerable targets he could think of.
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I know this is meant to be a joke but it is incentive.
We you meaning "pertinent" or "appropriate"? Incentive has always been a noun in my experience.
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We you meaning "pertinent" or "appropriate"? Incentive has always been a noun in my experience.
*insensitive
️no idea what I was thinking
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*insensitive
️no idea what I was thinking
Your subconscious was farming those up-doots.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
It's more of a murder/suicide
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It's more of a murder/suicide
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes you are right. I think there is a bell curve of murder culpability that starts at jeff bezo's wedding and ends at children starving to death.
No that's wrong bell curves measure the mean and that would just be the working class. Idk what I'm trying to describe. Jeff bezos should volunteer to lead the first human expedition to set foot on the sun. There makes sense now -
Oh yes! Anything but immigration!
But seriously, I feel like this is the broad sentiment of Japanese and the non-Japanese alike. Anti- immigration right applaud Japan for "keeping their country theirs" (as if ethnic Japanese aren't the ones who came later and displaced the local Ainus already living there), and not going on supposed national suicide, unlike the West. Not having enough babies is tantamount to suicide anyway. The narrative then becomes: either allow immigration and go on national and cultural suicide; or don't allow immigration and not have enough babies, which is still considered national suicide. Either way is committing national suicide.
I am not naive to think that immigration has no baggage; but at the same time, if countries want to increase birth rate, then increase the wages and standard of living for young people and families to encourage more people to marry and raise families. However, the elites aren't going to do the former because they don't want to disappoint their shareholders. If they don't want to do that, then allow more immigration, which they also don't want to do.
I completely sympathize with the Japanese view about immigration. Their society has a lot going for it which is held up by the culture. And diversity would lead to a tragedy of the commons in many cases, like keeping public spaces clean.
However, sacrificing your elders is not exactly Japan’s culture either.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
In the grande scheme of things, philosophically speaking, maybe.
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Does he see the same solution for old people everywhere, or just Japan? Seems like anyone can become a professor nowadays. There used to be standards, dammit!
Remember ‘dinosaurs’ by Jim henson. Yeet grandma in the swap
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In the grande scheme of things, philosophically speaking, maybe.
Well that works for me. The life of the mind is all I have anyway.
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Aren't we all committing mass suicide already tho? I mean, have you looked at earth lately? I mean I want to kill myself as much as the next person, maybe more, but if we are ranking demographics that should go first, my vote is for the rich not just the elderly
no
proof provided in your continued posting on lemmy
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Does he see the same solution for old people everywhere, or just Japan? Seems like anyone can become a professor nowadays. There used to be standards, dammit!
wrote last edited by [email protected]it's a lot less controversial when phrased as euthanasia should be an option as a part of palliative care ...
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no
proof provided in your continued posting on lemmy
Oh that's just to ameliorate the insanity; I'm fully resigned to the inevitability of my death and factual nature of my contribution, however minor it may be, to our collective demise
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Pro-life website. The article is probably not worth reading lmao.
Doesn't sound very "pro-life" to me. But then their self-identification was always a severe misnomer.
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I don't speak Japanese, but if you follow the link to the video it starts about 18 minutes into the 20 minutes video. The professor says something and then everyone laughs.
