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"People in Japan tend to live a long time; elderly Japanese are expensive to care for because they spend so many years in retirement and because they're accusto
by wolfgke 12y ago
"People in Japan tend to live a long time; elderly Japanese are expensive to care for because they spend so many years in retirement and because they're accustomed to a high standard of living and medical care. For any economy to stay healthy, there need to be enough taxpayers to support all the retirees. But Japan's population is shrinking and aging simultaneously, which means that the number of old people is skyrocketing just as the base of taxpayers shrinks."
Why not just set the retirement age up to mitigate that problem?
- busterarm 12y agoThis doesn't even take into account that women often aren't given great professional employment and are strongly encouraged to marry out of the workforce by their early 30s.
- tmorton 12y ago"Why not just attach a bell to the cat?" said the mice.
- onnoonno 12y agoAccording to Wikipedia, they did that in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly_people_in_Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly_people_in_Japan The rough equivalent of herbivore men in the west is called MGTOW. In the west, some blame feminism for similar shifts...