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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] 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It's not obvious. Low birth rates are completely sustainable, you just kill anyone who can't afford to retire and can't work anymore, and society functions perfectly well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We have machines that can do the work of 100 people in the past

I'm sure that we could make it work without killing anyone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

We also consume bullshit at 100 times the rate. People will be unhappy to see that go away. But yes, we produce more than enough for everyone as is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

While the alternative is everyone who is unable to wotk is killed anyway by the apathy of the system?

We are doing what you are describing already, in the system we currently live in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

What? In the current system we pay retired people money based on past employment as well as just for living long enough, in most countries. Japan can no longer do that soon because without taxing their young to poverty, they just don't have enough income to fund it.