Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Another stupid article assuming that a population reduction is a bad thing.
No, no, of course, just keep increasing the human population until it crashes. Then it’ll be an actual problem.
The numbers look bad because increasing population increases the GDP, and GDP has become the archetypal example of what happens when you turn a metric into a goal.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
It’s not just about GDP, if your retired population starts to outnumber your working population by a large amount, who will support all those old people? Nowadays children can’t care for their parents because they have to go to their 9-5 every day, so we rely on other people to do that job for us, and if they disappear then what? The problem isn’t the deflating population per se, it’s the inverted demographic pyramid and our work culture
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The problem is made up. We’re more productive than ever and should have plenty of leisure time and plenty of safety nets for old age…but that wealth has all been siphoned off by a very few. The solution to this is tax the wealthy.
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“The problem that historians, economics, geographers and other researchers have studied for decades is made up. Trust me bro”
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
So, two easy solutions:
Immigrant labor
Cut the toxic work culture, go to a 20-30 hour work week, and give people time to take care of their parents.
Why can’t they do that? Ask your economy priests why they can’t do that. Get back to me.
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Don’t forget that immigrants are bad.
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
/s
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
True, dropped that, my bad
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
So the problem isn’t “not enough babies” it’s “not enough babies to keep both our xenophobia and our toxic work culture”?
Oh no. Whichever you choose, I’m sure the world will mourn the other with you.
telllos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kurzgesagt had an nice video about this, it has a huge imact on culture too. With old people not able to transmit their knowledge and crafts.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Oh no, my family’s extensive hater knowledge will be lost to time.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
‘It’s only a problem for economics.’
‘But what about the economics?’