Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoThe 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 1 week ago
“The problem that historians, economics, geographers and other researchers have studied for decades is made up. Trust me bro”
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week 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 1 week 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.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Absolutely, and so was L Ron hubbard.