Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Japan's Rise of Net Cafe Refugees and Youth Poverty" video.

  1. Youth poverty is hitting worldwide. My country has similar but different problems.
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  2. In my country the countryside is facing the same problems due to mass immigration, a quarter of the country are now foreign born immigrants, more if you count the generational immigrants, most of whom haven't integrated much if at all.
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  3. I come from Europe, you don't know what you are talking about, we live off debt as well and living conditions are deteriorating, things are terrible and there is a profound sense of hopelessness and nihilism. On top of this talking about it is increasingly restricted and the media and government lie to our faces.
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  4. Only Afghanistan and Africa don't have declining populations, but that doesn't meant that people can't still be shifted from one country to another.
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  5. Things have become pretty dysfunctional as the focus hasn't been on social relationships or even trying to be a decent person but material gain, many people were brought up with little guidance and have trouble bringing their own children up in a decent manner. Unfortunately it is simply the case that sometimes you have to cut people off, you can't pretend that things are fine if someone makes no effort to change and takes their family for granted, though I wouldn't cut them off unless they were morally indefensible. Unfortunately society as it is really doesn't help, people are given a malformed set of values and told that arrogance and disregard for others is good. I don't lament families not getting along, I've seen too many cases where it's justified, but I agree that the fact that things have reached that point for so many is a sad thing.
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  6. Errr, yes.
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  7. The traditional way is to live in an extended family and in return for having help with childcare looking after your parents in old age. Personally I think the birth crisis is as much to do with values and material expectations as wealth as people in the past were almost unfathomably poor while still having very large families. A focus on relational bonds would probably be of great aid as would romantic movements or religious revivals like happened in Victorian times, paying people to have kids hasn't really worked so far though taking away the costs of having them (e.g. things like state education fees) is wise and things might end up differently if instituted in Japan due to the different social and cultural circumstances.
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  8. Oil does that.
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  9. Wealth is created not shared as anyone with a half passing knowledge of economics would be able to tell you.
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  10. Oh god, please no.
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  11. Instead of universal income just lower tax on property and make farming easier, support smallhold farming and encourage families. A high tech sector would be good and the break up of large corporations better though difficult due to the lack of entrepreneurship.
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  12. What, did he have a sex change.
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  13. Wise advice
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  14. Don't worry the doom is globalised.
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  15. One can be both the best and not perfect at the same time, he did specify in the world.
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  16. There are none, literally none. I come from a state with replacement immigration, life is hell. Never ever listen to foreigners about opening up, it will destroy your society and economic for all but the very wealthy.
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  17. Observant as that is what's happening, the danger is if the counter-reaction is just another go at old failed ideas (if people start setting up communist slave societies again honestly they'll deserve the resulting famines, though knowing how these things go the actual people who die in them won't).
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  18. They are merely responding to the North Koreans being crazy, the Russians desperate and the Chinese powerful.
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  19. They clearly aren't being viewed as a baby factory, if they did they might actually have some children.
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  20. Not even old, it's everyone's wealth into the hands of a small elite.
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  21. Europe is aging as well if you don't count the importation of foreigners by governments.
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  22. Ah, sorry I clearly misunderstood what you meant by different.
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  23. I hear that King Charles is also personally responsible for the global interest rates. Criticising the government at least is fair as they have actually made decisions which have shaped the situation.
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  24. In Britain there is actual public support for returning to absolute monarchy due to how deeply hated parliament are at this point.
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  25. It's not an attitude it's economics 101. The idea that better off people merely steal wealth has been one of the most pervasive ideas that have caused social tensions historically, notably China saw stagnation due to that attitude around it's merchants and craftsmen meaning that despite all the ingredients for the industrial revolution they would never be able to capitalise on them, likewise the Jews often faced persecution under similar logic as did other groups (though they never survived past the first purge) and the soviet union justified mass murder on the same terms. Certainly not everything in the economy is above board but we shouldn't exchange our problems for worse ones.
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  26. The problem is how many go to university, however if you are going to be stupid and funnel everyone though the same system then having an incentive which makes bleeding students for all they are worth (especially as this is probably the last opportunity to do so before economy makes people realise that they should probably think about other options) is probably a bad idea, if you really really want to waste a lot of time and money then publicly funding it is probably the way to go (just so the universities aren't actively impoverishing people). It would however be much much better to diversify the economy and stop funnelling everyone down the same path with the expectation of them serving the economy of 40 years ago. Really the primary focus should be the continued existence of the country economic policy be damned. A country of rice farmers is better than a country of nursing homes no matter how much wealth there was during the boom.
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  27. Poland and Lithuania having been doing badly from my understanding and obviously even the Russians can tell themselves that things are better that they have been in the past (though it's the 90's the remember moreso). I live in Britain, we have very serious problems, some are to be sure that people have been spoiled and don't know how to deal with even slight hardship but there are things that are very bad, my generation will likely never own houses or take pensions and even getting by is becoming hard for the less wealthy, we have not been doing great since WW1 but things likely haven't been as bad since the reconstruction period after the end of WW2 (indeed our taxs haven't been as high as this since the war), the feeling that the nation and the culture are being killed intentional and that we will almost inevitably cease being a distinct entity probably doesn't help with the depressive mood. I think much of western Europe is feeling similarly disillusioned.
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  28. *have not been doing badly
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  29. They printed so much they they have to tie it up somewhere, getting it destroyed by the Russians is more productive that burning while doing the same thing. Giving it to corporations is however a less bright idea if you don't count the fact that government is basically a corporate entity and is run by the same managerial class of elites.
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  30. Err without the considerable amounts of foreign aid they probably wouldn't be able to support their population, though the economy would probably be better due to foundational industries not being undercut by free stuff and corruption enabled.
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  31. You guys have been saying that for 150 years and yet any time we let you within half a mile of the economy it implodes and you come up with shooting civilians, famine and ethnic genocide as the economic recovery plan.
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  32. It doesn't sound like they will miss you, I feel sorry for your kids. You will find the issues mentioned are problems everywhere and worse in most places, it has merely been that case that Europe is much more willing to not admit or hide issues from public view. Tokyo is not the nicest place in Japan for raising a family or first world problems, personally I just would have gone somewhere more rural but you seem to have built up a lot of resentment so I guess that's not a possibility. I'm sorry to say that whatever you are looking for you will likely be disappointed.
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  33. They were occupied by America after the war and part of that was reforming the education system, though it should be noted that the Japanese education system is much much better despite being outwardly structured the same. From my experience with university in Europe I would say adopting neither is the best option, people should go to university to actually learn things they couldn't otherwise and they should have a reasonable chance of being able to make something of that education.
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