I remember living it in Mexico like a free soul as a kid. We had poor people but I think I never really saw homeless people. Even the poorest person I knew had a little house where he lived with a few donkeys. We called him Toño La Muerte because his eyes were deep into his very thin looking skull eye sockets. He also lived right outside of the city pantheon. His little house burnt down once and besides the time my father died I can’t remember having such a sinking feeling. Anyway his house was promptly rebuilt With community help. We didn’t just let Toñito die out in despair having nothing. Anyway, now things are bleak for all kids out there. How can they ever dream of owning a place to live? And so if you can only focus on that problem, there’s no room for the having kids problem. Its simple, you got no place to live so bring no kids until you do. Okay so let’s say 50 year old men can finally afford a house so they start courting 20 year old women. That’s a big gap. Maybe their sperm is not great. But then it also means that they are easily outcompeting young men for women who can have kids. Ofcourse for women this all means that they can’t have a future of their own. They live so they can make bsbies with 50 year old men shooting blanks. Some of this might be true. My wife and I are similar age and married close to our 40’s. We knew we had to make some babies asap or we would miss that chance. 5 years and you’re done. Once women hit 40, its very hard to be pregnant. Having kids within 5 years is a lot of pressure.
Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
You can’t complain about a birthrate crisis when the world is full of immigrants and there is a domestic cost of living crisis unless you are a eugenicist on some level.
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 days ago
SigmaStalin@lemmygrad.ml 3 days ago
They live so they can make bsbies with 50 year old men shooting blanks
Lmfaoo
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 days ago
Thanks for sharing your unique perspective on the matter, I agree with much of what you said.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Japan is super racist despite the polite facade. It also doesn’t help that they have a “work and drink yourself to death at the expense of having a life” culture.
America certainly does similar things, but we don’t bother polishing the turd with politeness.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Americans, on average, work more hours per year than Japanese people (1765 vs 1691). Per capita alcohol consumption is also higher in the US than it is in Japan.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Doesn’t really change what I said? Just because we drink more and work more doesn’t mean what I said isn’t happening.
pulitzercenter.org/…/karoshi-deep-look-japans-unf…
The difference is in the US we probably do it because we get paid poorly and are stressed out due to societal and economic reasons. So we work a lot and become alcoholics because stress, advertising, whatever.
In Japan, it’s expected you work a lot and drink with the boss.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
And that’s bad. It’s bad here. This culture should not reproduce and anyone who brings a child into this should be taken out back and shot.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
i think the niceness is for tourist sake, and not for everything else.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
So not having babies would be extra pressure to fix at least one of these things.
I don’t see the problem.