I wonder if some of them feel similar to me. It just doesn‘t feel like a positive thing to put anyone into this world, which seems largely exploitative and hostile towards my economic class. All I have to look forward to is to work my whole life to pay the rent and food and all that for what? To destroy nature with everything one does or purchases, to participate in what is basically a pyramid scheme.
For those that do feel similar I can say this, some subsidies for parents won‘t make us create more children, where I am we already give a lot of our taxes for the parents here and it doesn’t change my mind to get a few hundred € a month extra, which just about offsets some of the implicit cost of children anyway. They can punish, threaten, spread panic, or reward obedience and all that in any way they like, I won‘t put anyone into a similar existence to what I experience, simple as.
So from my perspective, they‘d have to actually fix our economic situations for working class people first (much lower inequality and higher wages) and ALSO fix climate change, which I just don‘t see happening.
My theory is that there’s not enough money at the lower levels - where it gives the most benefit to the most people.
If someone gave you a few thousand, chances are it would be used sometime soon - a repair, a vacation, a rainy day fund. If that stays at the lower / middle class levels, chances are it gets recirculated soon from there as well.
Otherwise it sits in a rich person’s bank account, and is used by the bank to do real estate investment - which leads to newer buildings and higher commercial / residential rents.
Yes, the rich and corporations generally do things with their money - it’s not just sitting in a pool like scrooge mcduck. Unfortunately, what they do with the money tends to have the effect of suppressing the lower classesThere are more than enough people on the planet and the answer to falling birth rates in the developed world isn’t more births, it’s more immigration.
Unfortunately, the xenophobes seem to be winning in most western countries, to everyone’s detriment.
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Ho boy, wait until you find out about how xenophobic Japan is.
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Sure.
Speaking very broadly here, I define conservatism as needing an out of power group to shame/ostracize. Looking at Japan, 98% of the population is ethnically Japanese. 2% is immigrants. Hell I bet most of the people reading this already know the Japanese word for outsider without me even having to say it. It’s a lock that Japanese conservatives are every bit as shitty as English or American conservatives.
I don’t. What is the word?
Gaijin. I think this knowledge was much more common on the internet a long time ago tbh.
The most common one is “Gaijin” which is the impolite word for foreigner.
Japanese ultranationalists love a good political assassination
Have for a long time now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Blood_Incident
That happened a long long time ago in the UK, in like 40 AD or so.
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Japans immigration is actually surprisingly strict no ? I feel as the population ages more and more those laws will get a little more lax.
I mean, that’s literally what’s happening? I’m not sure what you mean there.
I’m not sure how 2% of the population being immigrants is replacing the native population.
2% today, but if the trend continues though
you know it’s gonna die anyways since the population growth rate is declining in an all time low right?
That’s a problem that came be fixed. But to those who like Japan and Japanese culture, immigration is not something that can be undone.
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But if you like Japan as it is, that’s a valid concern. It’s not immigrants magically forget where they come from.
Japan’s population declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its number of foreign residents hit a new high, reaching almost 3 million people, according to government data released Wednesday, highlighting the increasing role that non-Japanese people play in the shrinking and aging country.
The population of Japanese nationals fell by about 800,000 people, or 0.65%, to 122.4 million in 2022 from the previous year, falling for a 14th straight year.
After peaking in 2008, Japan’s population has since shrunk steadily due to a declining birthrate. The country saw a record low of 771,801 births last year.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has set tackling the declining births as one of his top policy goals and pledged to secure annual funding of about 3.5 trillion yen ($25.2 billion) over the next three years for a new child care package, which includes child birth and rearing allowances and increased subsidies for higher education.
