Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Why Japan's Birthrate is Still Declining (ep.1)" video.

It is important to note that Japan is not an outlier among developed countries with its birth rate, Europe has very similar one's. The thing that makes it distinct is that it does not engage in mass immigration and then pretend the problem doesn't exist. Let's be clear immigration is not a long term solution to demographic issues but much like bringing people into a ponzi scheme despite the fact that it's what western experts generally recommend to Japan, as birth rates are falling worldwide becoming a demographic black hole will only work so long and could be considered immoral for siphoning off skilled people from countries that desperately need them for any hope of internal improvements as well as having been the ones funding the education that western countries will take advantage of. On top of this a lot of the cover in a paper thin veneer, here in Britain living standards are declining rapidly but immigration (notably including illegal) are encouraged in order to pump the GDP figures and give the illusion that we aren't in a major recession, we also have the problem of cheap labour being used in place of technological advancement. This in not going into the many many other negatives. In short solutions at the ground level are vital and only real solutions will be able to fix such difficult issues. Personally I would recommend getting rid of government pensions as all they do is hide the fact that people need children to pay for them in old age. Likewise the modern dating system is not fit for purpose and indeed in the Japanese context seems to conflict badly with the culture and attitude of the population. Ideology which promotes and justifies family will also likely be necessary, in Japan this was traditionally fulfilled by Confucianism and the the West Christianity, people after all tend to act off what they believe in.
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Fantastic video as usual, here what I think of some of what was said. The economics of Japan is so much better than many western countries, sure it isn't modernised and the work environment is tough but young people can afford a house, that isn't a thing here. A lot of the men need to get their priorities straight, it is fine to suffer hardship if you can have children, were is the purpose in dying without having ever contributed and to be buried as the last in your line, your ancestors gave you your opportunities you shame them by putting your life to waste, they brought up large families with a much worse economic situation and suffered though tragedy, don't complain about such petty things. With what the women said a mother contributes many times what a working woman does, a working woman does the labour of one, a mother provides many workers for the future, she if you are high flying you could give the nation and world as many high flying people as you have children just by passing on your capability at home. There is a reason only recent societies have been foolish enough to put women into the workforce, they deflate wages now so that there no people to get paid tomorrow. Technology won't help, selecting sperm in IVF and the like leads to birth defects as does waiting to long to have children, it is only in contravention of nature that women don't have children young, it is what their body is designed around and thus complications are much more likely to occur the later things are left. These areas with better birth rates largely work by attracting people who want to have children, they are a statistical illusion. People have duty, it is not a right to steal from the future in order to ruin now, that is what debt is. People do need to have kids and if the government has to kick women out of work, ban porn or suppress the entertainment industry then so be it, the costs would be much less than doing nothing. I agree that Japan needs more positivity, it sounds like you do too, Japan is very insular many of the things you thing are bad are much worse in every other country, the fact that it is not ignored is a very good sign but perspective also needs to be understood, things not being prefect is an expectation treating it like a justification to not do things is only relinquishing the future to those who care less. As God commanded be fruitful and multiply. That should go before anything else as without it that anything else won't matter at all in just a little time.
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I believe you are correct, Japan has a serious need for small business, funneling everything into big business is one of the major problems. A wife running home business while raising children (within the wider family and community setting) if what the bible urges women to do, the ideal of the inactive housewife (though until the invention of the tv and cleaning appliances they were often anything but inactive) very much comes from aspiring to the nobility of the 19th century (who again were seldom inactive but were often perceived as such, especially within idealisations of lifestyle) with the increasing wealth of the population. Humans have a long history of surviving as a species and thus there are not shortage of lessons which have had to have been forgotten for us to get to this stage.
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Ah yeah and a truly great video btw, these ones are very much what I'm (and I believe many others) are subscribed to the channel for, though I think you are a great interviewer 'pornstar talks about japanese cheating!!!' type videos are not really very interesting, quickly become repetitive and feel a little too like freak shows.
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Remember both that the problem is only being realised now and that younger people as this video demonstrated are perpetuating the cycle, in many ways even more radically. Though we have a great deal more cause to upset the status quo I don't see any purpose in resentment or vindictiveness when it comes to the older generation even if they are very far from prefect and their interests are not of the principal impediments to change, at least where I am many more would be willing to make the sacrifices necessary given the situation than could be with my own generation given the circumstances and playing on that is likely the most direct path to solutions.
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I wrote something last night but it seems like YouTube deleted it (no clue why, it was a fairly mundane comment). To put things in very simple terms there is no need for indoctrination, the nature of pro-natalist religions is such that their adherents have a much higher birth rate, the only reason this hasn't translated to the problem solving itself is that mass education is installing top down values onto society rather than allowing people to learn from their parents experience and outlook. A lot of the obsession with prestige and corporate jobs exists in a bubble and without things like media and educational support not only would it have always been less dominant but it likely would have popped once it started failing, such perceptions exist within the ambitions of a post-occupation japan, the reality now is that it is oversubscribed and there are much bigger issues for the population to worry about, in today's climate a farmer with ten kids is worth his weight in gold, there aren't enough jobs for the people who want to be salarymen. The prices should show the way, move to the countryside, form communities, hunt deer and farm, that is a far better option than chasing temp jobs in an expensive and competitive city. Without the indoctrination which already exists the opportunities would manage themselves and people wouldn't be drained into cities which don't want or need them.
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I don't think it worthwhile to throw around blame, certainly the older generation started many unhelpful trends, the important things is that we concentrate on changing them. It is preferable that we get them on side politically but the priority is not repeating the same mistakes under the falsehood that we are not morally culpable if we merely pick up what we were left with, we shouldn't rely on the next generation being better than us and doing our hard work for us, that could perpetuate the same mindset forever.
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