Comments by "CaptainVanisher" (@captainvanisher988) on "TAKASHii" channel.

  1. The old guy's points were not on point and it seemed like he didn't know that Germany and even US are facing the same problems (more so Germany). Germany has some of the lowest birth rates in Europe even after allowing millions in mass immigration inside their country and the US is only staying afloat because of continuous mass immigration (illegal or not) and there are still a few strong religious communities where they have big families. But even the Us is under the replacement rate and that says a lot.
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  2.  @orkumm  India is generally primitive and not sophisticated so I'd say pretty accurate.
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  3.  @77jamess  That's factually incorrect. Having children is one of the most selfless things a person can do. And I am talking about having and raising them well. Why? Because by definition when you become a parent, everything is second to the children. Everything. Including your own life. At least that's any normal parent. On the other hand, seeking material wealth and money over creating a family is arguably narcissistic and at the least selfish. People nowadays are materialists and you are a prime example of that. That's why we have declining birth rates.
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  4. well if you live in Western Europe or the Us the average girl is 5'4 and 170 lbs ,so the girls that are considered skinny aren't really skinny. They are skinny compared to the average girl in their country.
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  5. The problem isn't that they are work oriented as a society. They always were. The problem is that they pushed women into that work oriented culture. Which results in women prioritizing work and career over family and love. Men being squashed under long work hours and mentally and physically taxing jobs is nothing new. It was always the case. In fact that was the case all over the world up until half a century ago.
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  6.  @dhimankalita1690  Yes, in this context it was used to refer to a technologically regressed country or otherwise its very basic and unsophisticated infrastructure and society.
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  7.  @Chris_T_3rd_Ward_504  Your last statement is completely wrong. As a population ages, costs go up and taxes go up while welfare benefits and salary stay stagnant. Societal collapse in Japan and most of the West is imminent if the problem isn't fixed. The last big generation in Japan is only now entering retirement. When an enormous percentage of your population is at retirement age both the welfare system and the healthcare system collapse. That's inevitable. And young people carry the burden with high taxation and costs. Only land will be cheaper because it will be deserted. Entire neighborhoods and cities are already going extinct. As for you being a migrant there and especially a black one, society won't be very welcoming. Especially if you don't fully integrate. And by that I mean learning Japanese to a tea, being a productive member of society, adopting all their manners and mentalities and revoking any prior citizenships and nationalities you have. I'd suggest you look at KaiserBauch's channel if you are interested in analysis of birth rates and their consequences.
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  8. Heavily untrue. Financials were never the issue here, considering that you can still raise well 3-4 children on average wage on both parents. We have seen time and time again that financial insentives have not caused any significant change in birth rates, so by that you can easily say that that's no the issue here. The issue more or less lies with feminism, lack of family and religious values which in turn destroys the sense of community and heavy materialism. People who blame income on not having children are usually people that are materialistic.
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  9.  @gamble777888  I am from Greece, another notoriously aging country. I can easily that it's feminism/female emancipation along with a high degree of materialism amongst the populous. Here we have long shifts and we are on the top 5 countries in most working hours per average (above Japan) but we also have the most sex on average compared to the rest of the world. So sex isn't the issue either which I believe one of the people mentioned above.
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  10. he literally asks them what ethnicity or race do they prefer wdym?
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  11.  @saraht9766  Child labor was widely banned and illegal in most of the West 100 years ago. So idk what you on about. Also I never said "great life". The reason I brought it up is because people are complaining about "not having time and money" when people would work far more hours and make far less money and be able to take care of their families and raise them well 100 years ago.
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  12. Violet Evergarden
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  13. Depends. Cheating happens a lot less in non feminist societies. I highly doubt that Afghan women cheat even 1% as much as American women.
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  14.  @fallenlegend8888  Indeed, but it significantly lower the chances. But criminalizing infidelity lowers them even more so. So a society with widespread religious values and laws based around said values will opt to have far better results when it comes to things like infidelity.
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  15.  @Kaddywompous  sure but the sentiment of "everyone is beautiful" is very common nowadays. No everyone is not beautiful and that's okay. Same way that a lot of men are not tall. But you can make up for it by working on yourself on things you can work on.
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  16.  @gamble777888  Yep. Materialism. If you look at everything, religion and family values are the great divider. Israel is one of the richest countries in the world yet still has insanely high birth rates even amongst their rich population.
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  17.  @understone86  Women work tons of hours in Japan. And even though they are generally more traditional if you look at the younger generations even in this channel you'll see many women who want an equal partnership (not a marriage in the traditional sense) and prioritize work over finding a husband. Feminism as a movement may not be as big but feminist ideals have seeped through Japanese society. More particularly it's emancipation of women.
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  18.  @Ego-ist42069  because Berserk hasn't had a proper adaptation and the best we've gotten is the 1997 one which is subpar and the story alone carries it.
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  19. The men used to work far more hours a century ago and they had more kids than you could ever imagine. A 50 hour per week job is not a lot. After 60 it starts becoming a lot.
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  20.  @MrShem123ist  I think the older generation would be even more accepting of the husband using prostitution services. Idk where you're from but conservatism doesn't mean male monogamy in most of the non Christian world. Depending on the region it differs. For example in Islam men can have up to 4 wives. In Japan in most historical eras men couldn't have more than 1 official wife (although many noble men actually did) but fidelity amongst men was not required. Meaning men with wives were allowed to use prostitutes or have mistresses. That's the conservative view in Japanese society. So depending on your society and its history conservative values sometimes differ. However female strict monogamy was a value held by every major society prior the feminist movement.
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  21.  @zahubshahid7944  The problem are that our systems will collapse. Yes our societies may survive in the long run (if they are not overrun by outside forces) but there will be a lot of suffering and destruction. First the social welfare programs will collapse because the tax payers will be fewer than the welfare receivers. Secondly the healthcare system would collapse. That's because the more we draw into the big generations going into retirement the more the healthcare system is stressed. And less young people = less healthcare workers. More old people = more patients.
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  22. Some really bad takes here, the guy in the white shirt had some good takes. Now for the bad ones, she wants Japan to become like Paris? Paris is literally one of the worst places in Europe rn because of its diversity it has become a 3rd world sh*thole. Now the population decline is the main issue Japan and most countries will be facing in the future. Most people here said that more spending towards education and family will solve this. It won't. Japan already has some of the most extensive welfare programs for new families. They don't work. It's a materialist issue. People value their materialist lifestyles more than they value family. So why would they create one? The only economic policies that I can think off to help the issue would be very high taxation of single childless women of all ages. And then a little higher taxation than now of single men over 40.
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  23.  @HomieCV  Some perhaps. I doubt it's most though. You seem to not understand how religious women operate. They actually follow the religion and believe in it.
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  24.  @shalinivarma237  You'd be surprised by this. But guess what? Most non-Christian conservative countries allowed polygyny (men having multiple wives) and did not condemn men using prostitution services. Japan is a very conservative country and that's a tradition that has held up for centuries. Japan always had a big prostitution industry and it was always somewhat acceptable for married men to use prostitutes.
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  25.  @Plisken740  The 170lbs is in the Us. In England it's 160 lbs.
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  26.  @elshaddollworld3941  Yet when we compare arranged marriages to "marriage of love". Arranged marriages are far more happy, far more successful and long lasting. Why? Because "love" is not a fleeting feeling. It's something you cultivate. Something that feminism and modernity have utterly rejected as it seems. People used to stick together and learn how to love each other. And that was the most successful way of going about it. In fact I can guarantee you that the love that my great grandfather cultivated with his wife who was given to him through arrangements was far stronger and more lasting than any of the "modern love" we see. Sadly Japan is a mix of traditions and modernity which complicates things even more.
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  27. It's not okay to be selfish and it's definitely not okay to not marry. Economics is an overinflated issue. Any couple with an average salary can raise up to 4 children on better circumstances than any child grew up in last century. As for pregnancy, just think about this: If you are healthy (not obese) and below the age of 35, dying from a pregnancy is rarer than you dying in a car crash. But I bet you get in cars every day, so why do you do it? Are you not afraid of dying?
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  28.  @understone86  Again, anecdotes are not proof. Literally any statistic you see proves you wrong. The annual average salary pre taxes is 45k which translates to around to 3,750. That's PRE TAXES. After taxes is as I said previously. Trying to say that Japan is a poor country and the citizens are living with a borderline third world salary is insane to even attempt to do.
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  29.  @mollytovxx4181  We can agree to disagree ig.
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  30. Great video, bringing into light one of the biggest problems that the Westernized countries are facing, which are birth rates. Japan is already starting to feel the consequences and the next 3 decades it will only get worse. My analysis is this: Very few of the factors listed are actually correspondent to reality. The two main factors for low birth rates all over the Westernized world are: 1. Women's emancipation 2. Materialism Materialism is an easy diagnosis when you start actually listening to people that don't have kids or unmarried. The mere fact that so many people say "economic issues" when they live in one of the best eras economically for the average earner shows just that. In reality, the average earning couple can comfortably raise 3-4 children if not more. It's just that we have become so materialistic that many believe that children should be raised with everything they want and more. As for women's emancipation. I think it's self evident. Women prioritize career over finding a husband and creating a family. Women even after married refuse to downgrade or let go of their career in order to have children. Women have risen through the economic ranks and that combined with their natural instinct of hypergamy has caused the qualifying dating age men pool to shrink immensely. As for many points raised like immigration. It doesn't work. It only postpones the consequences for a few years. The old guy's points were also kinda off considering Germany has some of the lowest birth rates in Europe even after allowing millions in mass immigration inside their country and the US is only staying afloat because of continuous mass immigration (illegal or not) and there are still a few strong religious communities where they have big families. But even the Us is under the replacement rate and that says a lot.
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  31.  @understone86  Japan has 2300$ average monthly salary which is quite high. And the inflation rates are fine in Japan. I live in Greece where we have 900$ average salary as a former 1st world country and a relatively high inflation rates. Japan is fine and most women can 100% have a part time job if their husband makes a little above average if they have kids.
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  32.  @w1z4rd9  Children don't need to grow up rich to have a good childhood. In fact I've found out that children growing up in lower middle class had the best childhoods. Why? Because the necessities were covered (school supplies, food and maybe an extra curricular activity) and they usually were playing outside all the time. At least that's partially my experience and that's the experience of the boomer generation. Children don't need much, in fact providing them with "much" will cause problems in their character like ungratefulness, spoiled etc.
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  33.  @restart6358  Male fidelity and monogamy only became a thing through Christianity. It's not that Japanese are crazy, it's that this has been the world for millenia and still is in half of the planet. Harem anime are just showcasing the innate male desire for quantity and polygyny. Nothing more, nothing less. And as far as I know they're very popular for foreign men so it's a universal thing.
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  34.  @MrJamChin  For old women it does not go the same. Men even at older age have higher sex drive. However, women were never accepted or allowed to use male prostitutes or have intercourse outside of marriage in Japan. The divide was solely reserved for men. Male fidelity was not required in marriage and that is a cultural thing that many cultures have. Some cultures use different methods to cater to male sexual thirst for quantity by allowing multiple wives aka islamic countries. Japan caters to it by allowing them to use prostitutes and in the older days if they were of a higher status even mistresses.
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  35.  @keithpalmer4547  The USA is far from good. Their economy is at its worse in almost a century. Inflation rates are high and salaries are stagnant. Spending is through the roof and so is debt but it doesn't seem to give enough economic growth to outpace either of these. The Us economy has been going into the garbage for some time now, Trump did a good job trying to revive it but now Biden plundered it again by huge spending bills that mainly went into the lobbyists pockets.
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  36.  @johnnyc.31  Beauty is definitely not fully subjective. It has been scientifically proven that there are many parts of human beauty that are fully objective. Nevertheless, there are beauty standards in every country. So saying everyone is beautiful is in itself an asinine comment since you don't compare it to something for it to be beautiful. Everyone in this video is beautiful according to which beauty standards? Compared to whom? Beauty is not a stand alone thing, it's literally impossible for everyone to be beautiful. The argument that can be made is that everyone might be beautiful according to some country's beauty standards or some individual's standards (although the latter cannot be made to make an argument in this case but more as a statement).
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  37.  @prothyyy  France is 1.8 because of immigration which has essentially destroy the country. Ireland is one of the few countries that managed to keep somewhat afloat without mass immigration.
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  38. Economic difficulties is arbitrary. Because, yes people think about economics and are not having children but even someone in the lower middle class can afford 2-3 children if he wished so. Children don't need a lot to have a good childhood. They need parental attention and being raised correctly. Toys, clothes etc are cheap if you don't go extravagant. Same with food and other essentials. Any couple with decent budget skills and an average salary can comfortably raise 3-4 children in most of these countries. So it's not necessarily the lack of wealth but more so the heightening of materialism while being stagnant in wages that pushes people out of having kids. As for women's emancipation, that's definitely one of the main factors.
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  39. If you actually want to assimilate you can do so with their current system. But you should really want it hence why you have to wait and then get a visa and then prove that you are a positive influence to their society and then on top of that fully assimilate (learn the language, customs etc) and denounce your past citizenship. Their system is what every nation should strive for. The idea of loosening immigration rules is what got Europe to the point it is now. A failed experiment that has been widely unwelcomed by a lot of people here in Europe. Hence why right wing anti immigration parties are on the rise everywhere in Europe. Finland ,Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Czechia etc.
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  40.  @softan  ? Germany has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe. It's 1.6 compared to 1.4 in Japan. And if we exclude migrants it's even lower (closer to 1.5-1.4). Germany does have the exact same problems as Japan, which is materialism, feminism and lack of religiosity which drive the birth rates to the bottom.
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  41. I'd suspect they'd have the same views on prostitution (men going out to get prostitutes is fine) but be far more restrictive when it comes to cheating. Meaning they don't really cheat as much.
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  42.  @astrayblackcat  Well cheating is even more restrictive in other sides of Japan when it comes to the female side. It's not tolerated. And that's the tradition of Japan through centuries. However as far as I know the man cheating was tolerated and seems to still be because that's what the values in Japan are. And as far as I know, men using prostitutes is just the more respectful way of cheating and it was common even in imperial japan.
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  43. Japan rural areas are dying because young people flock to Tokyo. Not because of low birth rates. In fact he rural areas have the highest birth rates whilst Tokyo has the lowest.
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  44.  @bekind3050  Male humans* For female humans monogamy was prefered however a lot of the time unobtainable. And that's why there are certain instincts developed in women like getting over a relationship/marriage faster than the men do. Because in antiquity pillaging and wars were a common thing. And a lot of the times the men got killed, so their wives had to quickly get over them and latch upon the conquerors for survival.
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  45.  @mollytovxx4181  No everything which is on a scale is like that. Beautiful and ugly are the two edges of the scale. But most people reside in between. Below average, average, above average. Same goes for special as you said.
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  46.  @wiztansupercell2512  MHA is awsome
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  47. if everyone is beautiful then no one is.
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  48.  @understone86  Japan has extensive welfare programs to support families with children. Salaries are higher than most of Europe. If you are from Eastern Europe your country was 100% poorer than Japan. Even some European countries on the wealthier side have lower salaries than Japan (Estonia, Lithuania, Czechia, Cyprus, Spain, Italy etc). Idk how much you make but from what I can gather you are on the bottom of the economic class in Japan. As for school uniforms, the average cost is 400$ and it goes down to 130$ and up to 700$ depending on the region. That's nowhere near a monthly Japanese salary. If you make less than 1200$ a month you are at the bottom 20% of Japanese earners. The top 20% makes 5000$ but most make around 3000$ a month. That's all after tax by the way.
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  49.  @fm0363  "Suicide rates by sex and country (age-standardized, per 100,000 population, World Health Organization, 2019)" Wikipedia links the study. As for developed countries higher than Japan we have: Latvia, Montenegro, USA , Belgium , Finland and Sweden. The 17.5 suicide rate in Japan is specifically for males. Women have a 6.9 suicide rate which makes the average drop significantly down to 12.2. So you got your stats wrong. And no Japan's suicide rate isn't as high as people say. Only for men it is.
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  50.  @prothyyy  Yes but sadly Ireland is starting to pick up the immigration system of the West and it is starting to lose its traditional setting. But from what I heard covid lockdowns gave the country a reset and a lot of women quitted their jobs or started working less and stayed in the house more after the lockdowns ended, because they understood that they care about their family more than any extra luxuries their job might bring.
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