Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "How Japan's Marriage Has Changed | Birthrate Issue (ep.3)" video.

  1. The government welfare and pension system are basically a pyramid scheme and the population decline is less like a decline than a collapse (if you halve every generation then in 4 generations 10 people become 0.625, has that given perspective), these taken together are why people are so fatalistic. Though in truth the math works both way, increase birth rate the opposite way and the population rise is very fast, but of course to do this pensions, welfare and most government spending as well as many modern sacred cows would have to be sacrificed, or you can go with the western plan of just funneling foreign young into the drain to keep things going and ignore the long term viability and suffering of those involved.
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  2. Yep, or liberalism more accurately, though for the Americans out there I mean the ideologies and philosophy that came out of the enlightenment.
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  3. People need to accept the decline in living standards.
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  4. Economics means that isn't a solution, the cost will come from somewhere else, banning women working, reforming education (or just getting rid of state funded education), getting rid of welfare and pensions, banning contraceptives and shooting western lobbying people out of the country with a cannon would probably be a lot better. Moving money around has been tried in Europe, hilariously only the gypsies started a permanent trend of higher birth rates as a result, probably because they were the only group for whom money was actually a limit on children rather than motivation and circumstances.
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  5. The economic problem is mostly time, if people are busy with work they don't have time for kids and daycare is expensive. Money is a problem in Tokyo as the living and housing costs are high, in the countryside it is the opposite, though prestigious jobs are basically non-existent. Attitude is the main issue, housing isn't expensive if parents live with kids or people share rooms, people can live on a lot less than they want, companies can have people working from home and not everyone should be working for a corporation, a country requires a diverse workforce, Japan has enough resource problems without running out of farmers. The material wealth on tv is an advert not reality, for this reason many in Tokyo end up in sex work to living in the big city and pretend they are living the high life. Japan desperately needs to deurbanise and dewesternise, most of these materialist values come from the west and are causing chaos in western society despite it being much more resistant to individualist extremism due to the individual emphasis of traditional (e.g. Christian) western morality.
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  6. Contraception makes this moot.
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  7. Yes, they are statically far more criminally inclined, of course compared to the Japanese population so are white people but even if you call it racist it is also true.
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  8. Depopulation. You know the subject of this video.
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  9. All societies were clan based and worked at least somewhat like this prior to Catholic social reform in the early medieval period.
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