Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan

• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No, they’re absolutely not. Their GDP will majorly decline, but their QOL will stay the same or even improve and their GDP per capita also won’t see much change.

  Birtherism is bullshit.

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Their nation needs tax revenue. That depends on having people to tax. If the population declines too much they cannot afford to maintain social services and QoL will decline.

    None of this is particularly controversial or surprising.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The services’ costs are dependent on the number of recipients. They’re already in the slump of elderly being a drain on the system, it can only get better not worse.

      The only concern of the population decline that I can see is the decrease in funding available for Military Expenses.

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You are the only person I have seen claiming the elder population of Japan is decreasing or that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

        www.ipss.go.jp/…/pp2023e_PressRelease.pdf

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  • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m interested to know how you believe the elderly will be cared for? Let’s assume for a moment they have no issues financially supporting the elderly, but physically who is supposed to care for them? Who will make up the nurses, doctors and caretakers now that their population pyramid looks like a chicken drumstick?

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Japan has a large amount of unused labor in the current demographic breakup of 29% elderly, Japan has a large number of educated inviduals, and Japan has a large amount of capital even without infinite growth shenanigans.

      Any failure to take care elderly even at 38% or even 50% would be a failure of the state as a result of greed or corruption. It’s a relatively simple task to accomplish. The year is 2025, automation replaced most other jobs a long long time ago.

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They’ll survive it, their markets and investments aren’t overvalued like ours are. They’ll crash, re-evaluate their societal priorities, and start to build again

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s an incredibly optimistic outlook.

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean every society has to rebuild after a crash, I’m just optimistic that they’ll do it faster

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You might want to look into the population studies on Japan. They are pretty bleak

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    • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      hard to function with a negative outlook

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• Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’d require significant societal change to an environment where having children is actually manageable

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Which is why this is a problem

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