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Demographically speaking, I think Japan would be the perfect place to test the basic income: A largely homogenous society where there is almost no one from the
by laurieg 10y ago
Demographically speaking, I think Japan would be the perfect place to test the basic income: A largely homogenous society where there is almost no one from the outside to be seen as a "freeloading", collectivist values forming strong group bonds too.
Unfortunately, I have spoken to a lot of people in Japan who are dead against any kind of social security. It's not an unusual to view unemployed and poor people as 100% responsible and worthy of no empathy.
- timwaagh 10y agowhich is likely due to the working conditions of twelve hour days and such. i have trouble empathising with such people myself when i have to put my life 'on hold' to attend a job.
- unprepare 10y agoIsnt Japans population aging quite quickly though? When some concentration of retirement aged people is reached, surely these attitudes will see a decline also? I always hear about how Japan is making robots to take care of the elderly, because there will soon be more elderly than young - so i guess im going off that.
- smsm42 10y agoI wonder if those two things are correlated - i.e. if the society has collectivist values and tolerates no "freeloading", it'd be easy to introduce basic income, technically, but the society would not want to do it.