Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
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”
Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
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.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Absolutely, and so was L Ron hubbard.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
What makes someone a scientist to you? And why don’t economists fit that? It’s such an interesting take, especially since (given we’re on Lemmy lol) I assume you’re coming from either a communist or socialist standpoint, both of which are economic theories with many economists backing them. So it’s not like all economists are playing on the team against you - although maybe you have a much more interesting take on all this than I’m imagining.