Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Is JAPAN 🇯🇵 about to become EXTINCT? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@MrHarumakiSensei Both. Raising a kid to productivity has only gotten more expensive because they're increasingly competing against automation that is much more intensive to stay ahead of. At the same time corporations have successfully lobbied to globalize their labor and break the bargaining power of its employee unions, giving them more funds to M&A away the competition as well as accelerate the development of career-ending automation without providing balance through loss-leading investments in education and developing overall human capital.
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Japan is even offering free houses to those younger folks willing to move and stay there. Problem is it's not strictly having a roof over their head, but more fundamental flaws in the economy especially for those same young adults seeking to establish a livelihood they can predict will carry them through potential parenthood and retirement.
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It's not just childcare and parental leave, but the two decades of education (especially creative ones which dissent from classic value of loyal discipline) needed to keep automation an assistant rather than a replacement. Only with such an assurance of livelihood can couples really consider having more kids.
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The greater threat comes from the regime who is aiming to normalize grossly inaccurate reports, official corruption, legal opaqueness, disappearances for dissent, and mistakes expressions of unpopularity as military-grade violence. Meanwhile a lot of those hard builds are getting built like 50% larger with half the technically prescribed material so that the official in charge can pad his achievements and pocket the difference -- in China structural failures of brand new construction seem to be an annual incident at least, and overseas even the locals watching the BRI projects note an alarming lack of rebar and concrete, yet they're still on the hook for all those debts incurred.
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Peak productivity still hasn't changed from the 25~65 age range, and automation is much more easy to replicate among the competition. A market where the bulk of the labor force is past its prime isn't as promising as an equally automated alternative who is in its midst or at least upcoming within a couple decades.
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Japan is literally giving away vacant homes to young folks willing to move out and stay there. Problem isn't the costs of a house, but access to the wages, amenities, and opportunities that are only found though the specializations cities provide.
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That's exactly what Japanese companies say they support, but in practice are wholly hostile to.
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That will backfire spectacularly. The "uneducated" literally help keep our food affordable, along with keeping America's massive agricultural exports competitive. Plus coming down hard on whole groups of 'undesirable' newcomers also discourages consideration from the ones we really want.
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@ivanbudianto1962 Make friends yes. Make families no, at least if they want to keep their identity as authentically "Japanese".
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