I’ll take a couple.
Welfare queens?
For your interest.
Japan is having a population crisis. Not enough kids being born. They may have to incorporate the European solution and bring in a bunch of muslims.
It shows you how screwed we are as a culture. . when common sense - self-evident truths are deemed to be unthinkable, unspeakable and unworkable.
Well they can barely afford to live themselves.
It isn’t like Japan of the 70s and 80s.
When you have people living in computer cafes because it is the only thing they can afford, do you expect many people to then have kids?
But he is right about the old age burden comment.
I am willing to help reduce the burden.
Interesting!
Balzac also thought so, even more so, he thought unmarried people were a pernicious influence on society.
He not only wrote essays on it, he based novels on it.
Japanese culture is getting to the point where meeting and mating is too much trouble for the youth.
Literally, slow cultural suicide by failure to even TRY and breed. . .
“...It is not the first time an older male member of the LDP party has told Japanese women they have a public duty to have more children....”
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Well, perhaps they can figure out a way for young Japanese men to have babies then they can tell both men & women to have more children and not “be sexist”.
The relationship between young men and young women has changed.
When I was in high school, my girlfriend couldn’t hardly wait to get married and have children.
The girls in my Son’s high school were focused on college. They didn’t see the boys as potential mates. They saw the boys as competition. And this was a Christian high school.
The little house with a white picket fence has given way to the big city apartment or the 16,000 square foot house overlooking the ocean.
Japan has some real cultural issues:
- Pornography (some real sick stuff that is worse than the US)
- Prostitution (real and pseudo)
- High cost of living
- Materialism
- Insane working hours + [mandatory
] after work socializing
- Rampant fetishes
All of these factor combine to make the younger generation less willing to marry and procreate. Luckily, they still have their sanity and are not taking in boat or plane loads of Third Worlders to “make up” the difference.
Some Democrats here have suggested that those 70 years old should not get medical care because it is a counter productive use of government money. Dr. Zeke Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, is one of these.
Well, if I wasn’t already very happily married...
Sad to say, he is right.
Japanese need to have more kids.
So do whites in the US and Europe.
Maybe Japanese women aren’t too keen to have kids with a Japanese salaryman for reasons that have nothing to do with money.
miso miso
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Are the soy-boy Japanese men up to the challenge of fathering 3 kids?
Couple of issues he’s ignoring/doesn’t understand.
Japanese real estate prices are insane. They need to end the system that lets rural farmers have 10x the vote and start building more housing. This lowers housing costs while providing jobs, leading to more people able and willing to form their own households and families.
Socialism is a productivity drain. In some regards, setting up a tight socialist system after WW2 nearly guaranteed we’d cripple Japan long term. They’ve had a declining birth rate for years. Loosening up the economy would help, far more than just letting in some U.S. imports, allowing some Japanese men to bring in Thai brides, and reducing the 5-6 layer supply chain that gets stuff to the average consumer.
It’s largely true. Japan desperately needs children. Their birthrate is so low that it will eventually destroy the country.