Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline
Triasha@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There are real challenges to population decline, especially rapid decline like Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, russia, and China are facing.
The US and Great Britain are not looking at that rapid decline. For us, it’s a problem to be managed. Every generation of schoolchildren is 75% the size of the preceeding generation.
That’s manageable. No promises that we will do anything to manage it, but it’s not crisis level. Other countries will have greater problems. JApan has been doing Allright.
Eq0@literature.cafe 4 days ago
Japan has not been doing all right. Their economy has long stagnated, working conditions have been maintained rough with very long working hours and recently they have pivoted on their isolationism bordering on racism to accept workers for outside Japan.
It’s not horrible, but it’s not all right either
Triasha@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A falling population with a stagnant economy sounds bad but that’s a rising standard of living.
Long hours are not captured in GDP but Japan had that problem long before the population pyramid inverted.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Oh no, not just stagnant GDP. Stagnant/decreasing GDP per capita. The absolute GDP is down even more.