That’s crazy man
Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
korea is actually worst off than japan.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
korea is actually worst off than japan.
That’s crazy man
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Italy’s not doing great either but it never comes up in the “look at japan” discussions
Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
The birth rate discussion is mostly centered around “can we continue making money?”
Japan and Korea have low immigration rates, so the population falls and capital is unhappy about the prospect of a shrinking and more elderly workforce and domestic market to sell things to. Italy on the other hand has subsaharan and arabic immigration (and the actually larger eastern European and Chinese immigration - but they’re not as fantasy inducing for the far-right), so the population decline isn’t as fast. There are more workers to replace the dying ones, and capital is happy. Plus, you can use this fact to fuel chud paranoia about “the great replacement”
Immigrants are seen as a tool everywhere. Right wingers want us, only as long as we become loyal servants with 0 political power and living in fear of the state and society’s iron fist. Liberals want us, because “who will clean the toilets?”.
And the fact that something is happening to cause people to consider reproducing as outright harmful to their well-being among people who would otherwise have wanted offspring is a crisis of bourgeois society that few people actually want to talk about.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Probably because, compared to those 2 countries, Italy is easier to immigrate to.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Japan’s easier than most people think. As long as you have a college degree you can get a shit job pretty easily.
Isolde@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that right? Maybe if you look a certain way that’s socially acceptable to them. If you aren’t (white, Asian) you’ll get temporary work that pays like shit, and companies can not hire you because they don’t like that you’re not Japanese with no legal or social protections to aide you. Even shit jobs have social requirements. That’s really the biggest problem.