Don’t forget that immigrants are bad.
Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 4 weeks agoIt’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
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
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
With old people not able to transmit their knowledge and crafts.
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?’
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.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Not all economists are capitalists or assholes. Many economists do propose such things. It’s the government that doesn’t implement them. Economists are real scientists, and shunning their work in such a blanket way is uncomfortably reminiscent of the kind of anti-science “I do my own research” thinking we see on the right. Economists disagree with each other on all sorts of things, because it’s an evolving field, but that doesn’t mean it deserves to be analogized to something like religion.