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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bro just allow more immigrants in

Open… the country… Stop… having it be closed…

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

That might be enough, but we may also need to abolish the family. shrug-outta-hecks

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... thinking-about-it

I doubt bourgeois science and public health can achieve that though.

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

cities built around humans instead of cars

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.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

if they gave me a break for neither being Japanese nor speaking Japanese.

Fuck, I’ll even take mandatory Japanese classes once I get there, just let me in first

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

True, I'll fucking learn but I'll learn afterwards. Haha

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

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

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

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?

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

and if they gave me a break for [...] [not] speaking Japanese

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

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

What if the 300 kurdish people we let in outfuck our entire native population within 2 generations?

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 months ago

But... Muh white replacement...

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 47 points 5 months ago

I'll move there and be the shame lightning rod at a company. I'll be the asshole who arrives late every day to make everybody look professional in comparison. I'll leave half an hour early so that overworked salarymen don't have to feel embarrassed if they need to go home to their family and don't want to be the first one to clock out. And then, when my work is done, I'll simply stop working. I'll go to the office and do nothing, playing chicken with the company's no-firing policy, until I lose and repeat my good deeds somewhere else.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

living the dream!

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

sneaking into japan so i can live in some random abandoned house on top of a mountain and collect food from the local haunted forest

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

The international brigade of the upcoming protracted people's war in Japan: foreigners going to the country, disappearing under MyStErIoUs CiRcUmStAnCeS that the cops don't feel like investigating, and then squatting the countryside to help establish a revolutionary base area

Visa requirements of Japan

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 32 points 5 months ago

Under Japan’s tax policies, some owners often find it cheaper to retain the home than to demolish it for redevelopment.

And even if owners want to sell, they may have trouble finding buyers, said Hall, from Kanda University.

Something the Government could do

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

government seizing unused houses would be authoritarian

Government buying unused houses at a market price is also authoritarian

[-] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Why would buying be authoritarian? Wouldn't that be a great way to create affordable social housing?

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

they were joking. right wingers saying the Government doing anything other than beating up protestors and murdering children overseas is bad.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

Maybe they could try not being such a capitalist hellscape so people can have the time and energy to actually have kids and fill those empty homes.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

When you’re trying to have kids but Shimada-san poured hot soup on your genitals because he’s your manager and it’s too disrespectful to report him

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A reminder that “low birth rates bad” is false, at least by itself. It’s bad for capitalists (who need constant economic growth) and for welfare systems operating under capitalism. What’s bad is if there’s people who want a family but can’t afford it.

A declining population under socialism isn’t a problem so long as people are having as many or as little kids as they want.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

Maybe I'm wrong but this seems a bit overly reductive? Capitalist or Socialist: if your workforce is aging out and there aren't people to replace their roles and automation hasn't got it handled yet that's probably still an issue you need to address....although I agree socialism is much much better equipped to do so on account of planned economy if nothing else.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

We've been spending most our lives living in a squatters' paradise

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

I'll take one

[-] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

I literally help old people with technology for a living can I get a work visa?

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

You’re not Asian, and if you’re Asian, then you’re not Aryan Nippon, so your visa application has been rejected.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Please...let me in. The cool zone is getting a little too cool for me.

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