Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why South Korea is Literally Going Extinct" video.

  1. Capitalism is shortsighted and sociopathic. To it even one day off is one too many.
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  2. This might only happen if housing stops being an investment vehicle, but that's political suicide considering how much Koreans have bought into real estate with what little extra funds their paychecks allowed. China is an even more extreme example of this, but there the effect is mitigated by better consumer buying power and a wider sense of respectable occupations, and it shows in their considerably higher birth rate that still averages over 1 per woman.
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  3. The real maniacs are their seniors, both bosses and elders. It's a very hierarchical society and those seniors demand so much that young Koreans literally have no time to care for themselves.
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  4. Religion and traditions compels a culture to "birth 'em all and let God sort it out". As their economies advance, it becomes increasingly obvious that such blind faith is more a hindrance to further development.
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  5. Cameras aren't the real issue. It's the buying power of a young Korean's paycheck for the amount of time spent with work.
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  6. Especially highly hierarchical Korea, where just being younger means getting socially dominated and having all your free time taken by the demands of your seniors.
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  7. But only if that housing isn't captured by corporations, who are effectively immortal. It has to be made illegal for non-human ownership before businesses buy them out before young couples can finally afford them.
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  8. They got inspired by the same news of Korea's birth rate falling under 0.7
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  9. What it doesn't need are retirees who consume resources much like younger workers without contributing nearly as much back.
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  10. Thing is the overall human population is still rising, driven by societies who haven't yet realized how expensive it is to become productive and valuable in a capitalist environment.
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  11. The energy comes from its younger people. An aging society is a deflationary one, which economically is a destructive downward spiral.
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  12. They saw the same news of Korea's still-tanking birth rate falling below 0.7
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  13. Capitalism hates dependents, whether elderly or school age. South Korea is humanity's most extreme example of its effects since the nation is basically the Republic of Samsung and a few other chaebol conglomerates.
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  14. Immigration works for the Americas where every nation was built on absorbing people from abroad. It's a much steeper learning and adaptation curve for Old World ethnostate cultures.
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  15. It's still getting overpopulated, but now by retirees who consume resources like a younger adult but doesn't contribute nearly as much back into improvements in the overall economy.
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  16. If something like a Universal Basic Income doesn't spread the gains of productivity among all the surviving humans instead of getting hoarded by their much smaller cohort of owners, we'll still have the same problem of an increasing share of folks failing to reach the minimum standards for payable productivity. Expensive costs for child-raising and entry-level careers suppresses the compulsion to have children at all. That's assuming age-defying medicine and AI don't end up like nuclear fusion, the tipping point always some years into the future.
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