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They would need around 50 million immigrants by 2070 to make up for their low birth rates. This is possible if they wanted to, although the tendency for human birth rates to fall is a global phenomenon, so it's just kicking the can down the road. It's probably only solvable with communism. Fun fact: if China tried to stop their population decline, by mid-century they'd need 10 million immigrants a year. So the only real solution for them is to figure out how to reverse the fertility trend.
As someone who will never have children, the only way I could see that changing would be universal free daycare, free education at every level, free healthcare (including dental, vision, prescriptions), 4 day/32 hour workweek, cities built around humans instead of cars, housing/food/water as rights, climate Stalinism, and LGBTQ protections at least on par with Cuba. I would not subject a child to the horrors of neoliberalism under any circumstances.
That might be enough, but we may also need to abolish the family.
Come to think of it, reproduction rates can stay pretty low if humans lived indefinitely. That would also allow for the abolition of retirement. Very good for capitalists...
I doubt bourgeois science and public health can achieve that though.
Japan is actually well on its way there in that department. There is lots of train service and the sidestreets are only as wide as they need to be. There are no sidewalks but that's ok because humans clearly come first.
I've thought about trying to get into Japan but I'm blue collar, no degree, which makes me essentially unemployable. I just want to run a hostel in Hokkaido and ride my bike in the mountains.
I would totally move to Japan and have kids there if it were more affordable, and if they gave me a break for neither being Japanese nor speaking Japanese. Fuck ethnostates but I'd do it though.
Probably will have to move soon due to rent increases anyway, better Japan than a van.
Fuck, I’ll even take mandatory Japanese classes once I get there, just let me in first
True, I'll fucking learn but I'll learn afterwards. Haha
I never understood why richer/more influential countries don’t teach foreigners their language at an affordable price. I think china was doing it for free with the Confucius institute before they all got shut down. But Japan is probably the most hyped location in the world yet they’re not out here shilling their language lol
It probably wouldn’t even be that expensive to run a program where you send like, college students or recent graduates to teach your language in another country.
Can you imagine how willing US schools would be to get a foreign language teacher who’s a native speaker whose salary is covered?
Don't worry, there's more than one language of Japan and there's also more than one Japanese language!
Anyways always a good time to link this old video