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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Old people can’t work and need someone to pay for their retirement.

If there are more old people than young people (population pyramid wrong way round) every young person needs to pay a crapton of taxes so that old folks don’t starve to death

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Nah. Food is cheap and plentiful. We don't need young people working in fields for old people to be fed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why can't immigration replace births?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Because Japan doesn’t do that.

There is an -ism they’re pretty big on, it starts with R

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Okay, but then we can't just frame the discussion as "increase birth rates or society collapses" because there's a very obvious third option that they aren't taking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Because Japan doesn’t do that.

They apparently don't do procreation, either.