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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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lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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Old people can’t work and need someone to pay for their retirement.

If there are more old people than young people (population pyramid wrong way round) every young person needs to pay a crapton of taxes so that old folks don’t starve to death

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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Nah. Food is cheap and plentiful. We don’t need young people working in fields for old people to be fed.

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queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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Why can’t immigration replace births?

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lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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Because Japan doesn’t do that.

There is an -ism they’re pretty big on, it starts with R

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queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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Okay, but then we can’t just frame the discussion as “increase birth rates or society collapses” because there’s a very obvious third option that they aren’t taking.

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NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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Because Japan doesn’t do that.

They apparently don’t do procreation, either.

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