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People can’t afford to have kids. Maybe if young people didn’t have to spend a huge portion of their paycheck supporting old people they could afford kids. The

People can’t afford to have kids. Maybe if young people didn’t have to spend a huge portion of their paycheck supporting old people they could afford kids. The older generation doesn’t want immigrants. The older generation votes against tax increases. The older generation does everything they can to keep home prices high. Then they demand no one cut their entitlements. All take, no give. It’s not surprising people aren’t having as many kids.

cthalupa 7y ago
With Japan, it's not solely (or perhaps even primarily) a matter of not being able to afford kids. Even in Tokyo the fantastic public transport means you can live in one of the more inexpensive wards and still commute basically anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. People aren't even dating in Japan, though. Marriage rates are way down, people aren't having sex, etc. Even the non-sexual aspects of relationships have been commoditized, with host/hostess bars where you pay to have conversations with people like you would while out on a date, cuddle bars where you pay just to cuddle, etc. Dating video games are huge. Women being able to more readily progress into senior positions in white collar jobs is a relatively recent occurrence, and getting married/having kids is a good way to end your career, so they're less likely to want to date seriously.
- chr1 7y ago
  Perhaps they should invest more into developing artificial womb https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/human-babies-born-using-an-artificial-womb-possible-in-a-decade-8156458/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/human-babies-born-using-an-ar...
throaw 7y ago
its their money, they paid in to the social security system and funded it, got robbed by taxes throughout their lifetime, paid taxes to build all the roads, govt services, forces, paid for the entire country and more with help abroad to build everything and on and on, whereas the younger generation socialist kids want to take even more from some elderly that also don't have 2 cents to rub together for retirement, partially at fault by the govt robbing them blind throughout the years

cthalupa 7y ago

With Japan, it's not solely (or perhaps even primarily) a matter of not being able to afford kids. Even in Tokyo the fantastic public transport means you can live in one of the more inexpensive wards and still commute basically anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. People aren't even dating in Japan, though. Marriage rates are way down, people aren't having sex, etc. Even the non-sexual aspects of relationships have been commoditized, with host/hostess bars where you pay to have conversations with people like you would while out on a date, cuddle bars where you pay just to cuddle, etc. Dating video games are huge. Women being able to more readily progress into senior positions in white collar jobs is a relatively recent occurrence, and getting married/having kids is a good way to end your career, so they're less likely to want to date seriously.

chr1 7y ago
Perhaps they should invest more into developing artificial womb https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/human-babies-born-using-an-artificial-womb-possible-in-a-decade-8156458/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/14/human-babies-born-using-an-ar...

throaw 7y ago

its their money, they paid in to the social security system and funded it, got robbed by taxes throughout their lifetime, paid taxes to build all the roads, govt services, forces, paid for the entire country and more with help abroad to build everything and on and on, whereas the younger generation socialist kids want to take even more from some elderly that also don't have 2 cents to rub together for retirement, partially at fault by the govt robbing them blind throughout the years