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[-] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 8 months ago

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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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago
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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

What if the population is stabilizing? Unlimited growth is death. Anyone who thinks differently hasn't looked at how life works. That a population that undergoes a huge increase crashes due to starvation and disease. This is observable from bacteria to humans. It could be Japan is entering a stable period where needs and resources are predictable and known. Sounds like a higher standard of living to me. The downside is the huge geriatric population will need more and more resources until that situation becomes part of the new stable norm.

Stagnant is how a capitalist mindset sees it. They can't stand that since their scam depends on unlimited growth. So of course any take on this from the stand point of greed would think its a terrible thing for a population to shrink to fit its resources not keep growing to allow ever increasing profits.

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[-] vane@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Management issues... I know what can help... Introduce Agile.

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

People now realise that kids are a lot of hard work and fucking expensive.....and that yearly skiing holidays are fun.

[-] uraniumcovid@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

imagine being so racist that it forces your country to fall apart. they made their own bed, time for some laying in it.

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[-] Jack@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

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

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

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[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 11 points 8 months ago

Inflation, daycare, and work-life balance are the complaints I hear most. A ton of the jobs and good education are in Tokyo so people want to be there. This overloads all the daycare and other systems. Since corona, the floodgates have opened on price increases and inflation. Since 3/11 energy costs have been rising and things with Russia also hit (after nuclear, tons of fuel is needed and is imported, often from Russia).

Having more things in other parts of the country that still paid well would help. Where I live (in Tohoku) daycare slots are plentiful and there are all kinds of subsidies for kids. The only jobs here, though, are fishery, forestry, agriculture, etc. My town is less bad because a lot was rebuilt after the tsunami, but the lack of people also means a lack of tax which also means infrastructure suffers. Rust and crumbling things everywhere.

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[-] hedhoncho@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

Why not just promote immigration. America seems to not have that problem

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