Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoSo, 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.
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week 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.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Turns our my definition if ‘scientists’ is pretty long and I’m lazy, but the short version is: person who tries to find the truth of material reality while mitigating/without bias as to final result of their inquiry
And I didn’t say they weren’t. Economists are almost as much scientists as L Ron Hubbard.