People being worked to death with high cost of living. No time for families, no money to have kids. Capitalism is crushing itself to death.
Visited Japan(Osaka) recently with my 5 year old son. While there is infrastructure setup for people with kids such as stroller only elevators, kids/elder section on the train, nobody, I mean, nobody followed the rules. Regularly the stroller only elevators were full and nobody got out. Or able body adults didn’t even glance up to let my sleepy child sit in the kids designated seats.
There were glares at us when my son was having a hard time, almost like we were inconveniencing them.
In my week-long experience there, people in general are not tolerated for children. No wonder nobody wants kids. I wouldn’t want to if I was treated that way.
Turns out conservatives were the moral hazard to society this whole time.
To nobody’s surprise.
Interesting, just came back from Japan and had a completely opposite experience.
Which part? Maybe I’ll visit there next time.
Also, I’m coming from Taiwan which is very VERY friendly to kids and families. So I guess I was expecting a similar experience.
Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. The majority of folks moved as needed and we did the same.
So sounds like hard pass for folks with kiddos?
Don’t get me wrong Mario land was great. But just weird shit drove us mad even inside a family friendly place like Universal Studios.
We had a friend with us that had a 3 year old girl with them. The airline lost their stroller(this was an major ordeal, nobody spoke English at the airports there)so they decided to rent from Universal Studio instead.
First of all, the person who was attending the stroller section didn’t speak a lick of English. Fine. Whatever. We used Google translate. He asked us how old the girl was and I said 3 years old.
The next question was
"Is it her birthday? "…Us: ummmm, no. That was a month ago.
They immediately said: "No rent to you. "
Wtf dude. Why?!?! Because the rules are 3 years old or younger. That means less than 36 months, not less than 48 months.
Just random shit like that seems the norm for the Japanese.
Thanks for the clarification. Sorry your trip was so rough. I may hold off going then with the new info.
Is less people really such a bad thing? We’re at a point where everyone’s already complaining about housing and climate change.
We can blame the 1% and we can say the elderly will suffer but something’s gotta give. I feel we’re all buying into a pyramid scheme.
It is a pyramid scheme. We have an economic system based on continuous growth. When it doesn’t grow, it’s a huge panic, such as during the pandemic or 2008 economic crisis. Now the number of workers and consumers, the base of the whole system, is starting to shrink and nothing much van be done without changing the essence of the system.
Of course those that became rich and powerful because of the system don’t want to change the system that keeps them rich and powerful. But without change the system might not survive.
People aren’t so much the issue as policy.
If politicians didn’t try to make everything dependant on fossil fuels and embrace renewables we’d probably be carbon neutral already.
The “problem” is that other parts of the world are more than making up for the declining birth rates in the developed world
Half of all countries are below replacement rate. Japan’s fertility rate isn’t even the lowest.
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Hey, maybe less humans means more climate. We haven’t tried that one yet.
No comment replies to you, but all the down votes. I’m curious what their take is on this.
That’s not going to turn into a fetish in Japan at all…
This is how the ruling class cuts us out of the gene pool.
