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Omg, they live a healthy and long life. What a disaster. Rabbit-like population growth can hide every and all unsustainable habbits under the carpet of future

Omg, they live a healthy and long life. What a disaster. Rabbit-like population growth can hide every and all unsustainable habbits under the carpet of future fools that "will take care of things". We are not rabbits. We are humans. Japan is what the rest of the world should become, not the condition to avoid. Its not easy, we need to rebalance our priorities and obsessions but these are just cultural adaptations.

BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
"Japan is what the rest of the world should become, not the condition to avoid." > Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s recent speech to parliament brought Japan’s dropping birthrate into sharp relief. It’s “now or never” to address the nation’s population decline, he said in the 45 minute speech, adding that “Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society.” > The difficulties of balancing work and family life is another significant factor in Japan’s low birth rate. In the industrialized world, Japan has some of the greatest working hours and fewest vacation days, making it difficult for parents to raise kids and have a full-time job. Additionally, there aren’t many affordable childcare options, which discourages people from having kids. > Japan is ranked one of the world’s most expensive places to raise a child. Housing prices and education costs are particularly high, which can make it difficult for families to afford children. Japan’s high cost of living, limited space, and lack of city-based child care services make it challenging to raise kids, which results in fewer couples having kids. The declining marriage rate, financial strain, childcare load, later childbearing, and infertility are also some of the variables influencing Japan’s declining birthrate. https://thegeopolitics.com/japans-demographic-dilemma-the-challenge-of-a-declining-birth-rate/#:~:text=In%20summary%2C%20individualism%20has%20contributed,in%20Japan's%20low%20birth%20rate https://thegeopolitics.com/japans-demographic-dilemma-the-ch.... > Despite noticeably decreasing suicide numbers over the past decade, Japan still has one of the highest suicide rates among high-income OECD countries. Historically, Japan’s above-average suicide rates have been closely linked to the economic situation of the country. https://www.statista.com/topics/5259/suicide-in-japan/#topicOverview https://www.statista.com/topics/5259/suicide-in-japan/#topic...
awesomeMilou 3y ago
The article is about demographic change, not population growth.
hbn 3y ago
The 80 year olds now lived a healthy long life. There's not much reason to believe the 20 year olds now will be in this situation in 60 years considering no one is having kids so there will be no one to take care of them in their old age.
seryoiupfurds 3y ago
Retired people aren't working any more and require some level of resources to take care of them. The higher the higher the ratio of retirees to everyone else grows, the higher the percentage of society's resources will be spent on them. This can take the form of higher taxes to pay for more and more socialized healthcare, but even in a libertarian utopia your dollars are competing against theirs as a higher percentage of the workforce are employed to care for them. If you're a young person who's still working, it's not an attractive outlook.
RivieraKid 3y ago
Living in a society with a V-shaped population pyramid seems... depressing.

BaculumMeumEst 3y ago

"Japan is what the rest of the world should become, not the condition to avoid." > Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s recent speech to parliament brought Japan’s dropping birthrate into sharp relief. It’s “now or never” to address the nation’s population decline, he said in the 45 minute speech, adding that “Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society.” > The difficulties of balancing work and family life is another significant factor in Japan’s low birth rate. In the industrialized world, Japan has some of the greatest working hours and fewest vacation days, making it difficult for parents to raise kids and have a full-time job. Additionally, there aren’t many affordable childcare options, which discourages people from having kids. > Japan is ranked one of the world’s most expensive places to raise a child. Housing prices and education costs are particularly high, which can make it difficult for families to afford children. Japan’s high cost of living, limited space, and lack of city-based child care services make it challenging to raise kids, which results in fewer couples having kids. The declining marriage rate, financial strain, childcare load, later childbearing, and infertility are also some of the variables influencing Japan’s declining birthrate. https://thegeopolitics.com/japans-demographic-dilemma-the-challenge-of-a-declining-birth-rate/#:~:text=In%20summary%2C%20individualism%20has%20contributed,in%20Japan's%20low%20birth%20rate https://thegeopolitics.com/japans-demographic-dilemma-the-ch.... > Despite noticeably decreasing suicide numbers over the past decade, Japan still has one of the highest suicide rates among high-income OECD countries. Historically, Japan’s above-average suicide rates have been closely linked to the economic situation of the country. https://www.statista.com/topics/5259/suicide-in-japan/#topicOverview https://www.statista.com/topics/5259/suicide-in-japan/#topic...

awesomeMilou 3y ago

The article is about demographic change, not population growth.

hbn 3y ago

The 80 year olds now lived a healthy long life. There's not much reason to believe the 20 year olds now will be in this situation in 60 years considering no one is having kids so there will be no one to take care of them in their old age.

seryoiupfurds 3y ago

Retired people aren't working any more and require some level of resources to take care of them. The higher the higher the ratio of retirees to everyone else grows, the higher the percentage of society's resources will be spent on them. This can take the form of higher taxes to pay for more and more socialized healthcare, but even in a libertarian utopia your dollars are competing against theirs as a higher percentage of the workforce are employed to care for them. If you're a young person who's still working, it's not an attractive outlook.

RivieraKid 3y ago

Living in a society with a V-shaped population pyramid seems... depressing.