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And we wonder why birth rates are declining...

• morkalork 2y ago
  Aren't South Korea and Japan locked into that death spiral now? Thinking they have to extract more time out of people to make up labor lost to a declining labour force, which makes the labour force decline further, so they squeeze even more...
  • mschuster91 2y ago
    The old farts in power don't care. They will soon be dead anyway (at least if age-reversal research doesn't make serious progress in the next 10 years), so they want one last giant party - no matter how hard it fucks up those who come after them.
    • morkalork 2y ago
      IMO it's a good example of where government regulations are needed (max hours for salaried workers, overtime rules for wage workers etc) because otherwise its a tragedy of the commons type of situation. If another business can (and will) exploit their workers, they will undercut you because their costs are lower so you either need to do the same or go out of business. It has to be an outside party that looks at that situation and realize that's not good long term and stops it because businesses won't.
    • pixl97 2y ago
      "Some of you may die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take"