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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Garibaldee@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Decreasing birthrates are a good thing. You can't have unlimited growth

[-] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They are definitely not inherently good or bad it depends on the place, but if there is 1 child born per woman in the country, that means the country given enough time will pretty rapidly shrink, unless they change something about people not wanting to have kids or allow immigration