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RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoTheir 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.
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.
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
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If Generation A has a higher number of people than Generation B then when Generation A dies off there will be a lower number of elderly in Generation B. It’s a temporary slump. It might last a decade or more, but it is temporary.
Right now a lot of skilled workers are fleeing to the EU, so Japan could totally capitalize on that. Or it can just educate its population to be skilled labor and give all the low skilled labor (if that even exists) to immigrants. Immigrants work hard for lower wages and are less prone to crime, there is no good faith argument against that.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The projected population of elderly people is projected to be 40% of the total population within 50 years unless substantial shifts happen. They are not replacing workers fast enough.
Japan has never wanted more immigrants and soon they will need a LOT of immigrants. Japan’s traditional xenophobia might prevent them for getting enough people.