Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "The Japanese React To The Aging Population | ASIAN BOSS" video.

What a despicable attitude some of the young interviewees have. Complaining that paying taxes for the elderlys pensions is "burdensome". Who do they think paid taxes that funded the 15+ years of public schooling that the younger generations got access to as early as when they were just out of their diapers? That's right! The elderly did! The majority of parents in Japan would NEVER have been able to afford paying for the high standards of education that their kids recieve out of their own pockets. The adults work and pay for taxes going to education for the young. And the young in turn work and pay taxes going to decent elderly welfare and pensions for the elderly. It's a mutually beneficial exchange, that both parties should embrace. Being a young twerp saying that the elderly are "burdensome" is an extremely disrespectful and ungrateful position. Even back in the stone age, humans knew to respect their elderly.
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Cutie Zalbu: No they absolutely should not! We've already seen the self-destruction of countries like Sweden, Germany and the U.K through embracing "diversity" through mass immigration.
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You fix that problem by instituting reforms that financially benefit people having children. Give parents generous tax breaks, and institute reforms that permit mothers and fathers free time to take care of and raise their children, and more people will start having children. The problem with many of these societies is that they are designed to give single men and women most benefits in their careers, while parents are forced to sacrifice careers and standards of living in order to start a family.
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Chevaughn Beecher: Muslims worship a pedophile warlord as a "perfect being" who's example they preach that all should follow. That's all I need to know about them, and to know that I want them kicked out of my country and be banned from entering.
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Radical suggestion perhaps: but I think laws should be passed that certain jobs should only be eligible to the elderly. Meaning if you are below a certain age, you shouldn't be allowed to do certain kinds of jobs. Jobs like office work, IT, accounting, bureaucratic and administrative positions in general. With old age the body tends to be more fragile, but for most elderly people aside from the unfortunate individuals afflicted with disease, the mind is still perfectly intact. And the elderly have something that the young does not possess: experience. I see no reason why a 20-something should spend his or her days as a stock broker, or IT-tech support worker, wasting away when they, by virtue of being young could perform so much better in labour jobs. Construction, sanitation, assembly line work, automechanic work, service jobs. These should be the kind of jobs that young people should be steered towards. That way, plenty of positions of employment for the elderly, that the elderly can actually perform, despite their fragile bodies will open up. Also, legislation should consider a nationwide reduction in the allowed working hours per day that companies can employ people for the administrative jobs, in order to maximize the corporate need for elderly and experienced people to fill these positions.
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Oseyeris: Are you even japanese?
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Tai Jay: Well the burden is still the responsibility of younger people to bear. The old people have done their duty to society. The younger generations can't even be bothered to repopulate society.
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halcyon1009: this has long since been proven a false conclusion. Try to keep up.
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Blacktommer35: Bingo. Societies have age limits for plenty of things already. Including certain job positions.
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elizabeth priegues: Actually it isn't. But being a short sighted idiot with no real solutions to the problems of an aging population, your reaction is expected.
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Unscrewed _ Up: The old have already paid their dues to the young. They were the ones slaving away at work for decades, paying not only the taxes for the childrens education, but also proceated and gave birth to the children, clothed and fed them. How are the japanese children responding in turn? Like spoiled little brats, they complain about the elderly being "burdensome", and they can't even bother to have children of their own to replenish the population. Bunch of spoiled, entitled little shits the lot of them.
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Oseyeris: Without school, the young would be infinitely worse off than they could possibly be now. Take a look at poor african and middle eastern countries where school is not offered to all children and see how well those people do when they grow up. You have to force children into school because they don't have the mental maturity to choose what's good for them.
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yukikevo: That's not true. Of course they have a say. Japan is a voting country, and one can start a political party if they so choose. It's just that young people in Japan are lazy, carefree and disinterested so none of them feel like getting into politics or keeping themselves informed. Every single interview you see with young people in japan about politics, they just laugh and feel embarassed and admit that they don't know anything about what different political parties stand for and they don't even vote, even when they are of legal age to do so. This kind of behaviour is inexcusable.
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TaNk4MyFrIeNdS: How about not flocking to the best universities by the millions and stop pursuing university careers en masse? It's not like all the menial labourers in Japan working in industries and fisheries all went to prestigious universities to get their jobs. And they don't really stop having children either. Flooding universities also hurt everyone with a university degree in the long run because you create inflation in the value of having a degree. University education should be reserved to the best and brightest individuals with the most aptitude. When practically everyone tries to get in, the value of education is lost. It becomes a "standard" rather than the exception.
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HoneySoifon: Yes there is. The japanese government can implement policies that favor familiew over single people. They can implement things like tax breaks for having children, better paid maternity leave, better laws and conditions regarding employment while having kids etc. Right now the laws and society is biased way too much in the favor of single professionals. Anyone thinking of having a family is forced to accept a downturn in their career and income. But this can be changed on the government level.
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sourC0W: the elderly will earn more per hour, but being elderly they will not work as MANY hours as younger employees, which means that companies will need to hire more elderly employees to do the IT, accounting and secretary work. So in the end, the wage total will become more equal over time. The point is to stop an untenable situation where elderly people are forced into doing hard manual labour which they don't have the constitution for, and get young people off their asses from office jobs (which is not healthy for their bodies anyway) and get the appropriate age categories assigned to appropriate jobs that fits their physical capabilities better. Also regarding the concept of "unfair". Fairness is an entirely subjective concept. Your suggestion of tokenism and quotas have already been tried and it doesn't work in practice. All it does is amplify stereotypes and bigotry in the work place since law mandated quotas of representation means that everyone assumes by default that a woman, black guy or muslims at the workplace only got their jobs because of state quotas and not because of ability. Age limits are much less discriminatory in that regard since all humans grow older, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender. And like I've already pointed out: we have age limits for plenty of positions and priviliges in society already (legal drinking age, legal driving age, legal working age, legal age to own firearms, even a legal age to have sex) and the public backlash has never been particularly significant. Instead most of society agrees that age limits to things are completely reasonable and logical. Therefore convincing the population of age limits for certain kinds of jobs won't be a problem. Also, in older societies, age limits were the standard practice. You could never reach "master" or "grandmaster" titles within a trade guild before a certain age, no matter how much of a child prodigy you might've been at your craft. It was also standard practice within most trade guilds that the physically harder tasks for any project was assigned to the younger novices, apprentices and journeymen while the more intellectually demanding and planning stages was done by the adepts, masters and grand masters of the guild.
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Dark of the knight: The purpose of the tax reforms was so that elderly people without children or relatives would also be able to live decwnt lives in their autumn years, so that it wouldn't just be a privilige afforded to the elderly who had many children to take care of them. And looking at the lazy, unwilling japanese youngsters who are unwilling to procreate, that's the kind of future they have to look forward to. When they are old, infirm and alone, they're gonna feel relieved that taxes also goes to funding the daily lives of lonely elderly people.
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Oseyeris: How are you supposed to "save up for retirement", when everyone is forced to pay taxes to fund schooling for ungrateful little brats like you? If the old people can pay for your school, then you damn sure can pay for their welfare and retirement.
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TaNk4MyFrIeNdS: A house is necessary for a family to live in. I doubt those kids would've prefered to grow up in a crummy, tiny, one room apartment.
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yukikevo: They stand a fuckton better chance by actually attempting it, rather than trying to ignore or disregard politics altogether like they do now. If you attempt something, there is the possibility of failure. If you refuse to attempt it, failute is guaranteed.
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TaNk4MyFrIeNdS: You do know that you can sell a house that you're still paying off a loan for right? The house will most likely be more expensive than a smaller apartment, more suitable for a senior citizen. So if you really can't afford to keep the house, you sell it, use some of the money to pay off the remainder of the house loan, and the rest to buy or rent a smaller, more affordable house once the kids have left the nest.
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TaNk4MyFrIeNdS: If japanese people stopped pursuing higher education all the time, the companies would have to adapt or they would quickly run out of staff. Also, they could start up their own companies. You don't need a college education to be an entrepeneur.
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