(overworks and robs an entire generation to death)

"Why would foreigners do this?"

Also I'm almost getting tired of posting this brilliant illustration but sheesh, if the jingoistic authoritarian entitlement clan isn't using the same playbook every. Time.

Boomers of the world consumed all resources and pulled up all ladders behind them. American Boomers are especially oblivious to their roles in creating the current world, and seemingly oblivious to concepts like basic empathy. Their entire worldview is a function of how they can best benefit. "Generation Me," was the perfect tag.

Japan’s population crisis is caused by its young people being too overworked and overcharged to want to have children

While this may be a contributing factor, there is obviously more to it. Japanese workers actually work less than the OECD average hours per year. Take a look at a handful of countries such as: Mexico, South Korea, United States, Finland, Germany, and Japan (generally representative of their respective regions and income levels)

Then compare those country's hours worked to their fertility rate

Mexico works the most hours of any of those countries by far, only behind Colombia in terms of hours worked, yet has the highest fertility rate of any countries I listed

South Korea works a lot of hours, second highest of those countries, just above the US. They have by far the lowest birth rate. A bit over half that of Italy and Japan, the 2nd and 3rd lowest birthrate countries, yet both Italy and Japan work far less hours than South Korea

Germany and Finland, famed for their quality of life and lower working hours, both have relatively low fertility rates. Far less than the US and Mexico, countries with far more hours worked, and far fewer legal protections to workers - especially pregnant women

In short, when comparing different countries, I don't see a substantial correlation between hours worked and fertility rate

Its basically the exact same issue happening everywhere in the western world, Japan is just a few steps further a long.

Basically, a shrinking population is good for the people, because there's fewer people among which to divide the resources that the land can provide, so on average that should mean more resources for people, in other words a lower cost of living (since cost of living depends on resource availability). And it also means that there's less supply of human labor on the labor market, and by the rule of Supply and demand that means that the prices for human labor (wages) are gonna go up, i.e. people are gonna get paid better for what they do.

That intuitively makes sense, because if your country has 10 million people instead of 100 million, then your CEOs and companies are better gonna treat your workers better or they're gonna strike, and since there's fewer other people to replace those workers, their strike would have greater impact and therefore more power.

on top of that, you can't just assume that there will be a high demand of human labor in the future. You have to assume that automation is going to reduce jobs, so if you don't also reduce the number of workers, you're gonna face an unemployment crisis, and that can be very bad for the workers.

I wonder if economics has anything to do with this trend worldwide. When people have to worry about their next meal every day they tend to get frustrated and finding something or someone to blame, rightly or wrongly,is a way to vent that frustration.

With more and more wealth concentrating at the top 1% it stands to reason that the population that feels frustrated is increasing quickly.

Inequality breeds resentment, it's hardwired in our brains. And resentful people are easily led to blame minorities, something hateful and/or power hungry can use for political gains. The ones causing the inequality are more than happy to help this process asking as it usually keeps them from being blamed.

And as in the current political and economic system the inequality globally can only increase, blame and hate is what you get.

Its so depressing, swap just a few nouns around and it reads exactly like an article about the UK

Come on up to Canada, amigo.

Mariana trench.

That's because our elected leaders are barreling us towards a war. It's good for the economy..

The global collapsing of communism was always inevitable.

There has always been 1 of 2 choices countries would make when it finally arrived.

1. Abandon the system of capital and embrace socialism

2. Quintuple down on all the worst aspects of capitalism by fully embracing fascism and dooming your society to total collapse

funded by Russia btw

This constant propaganda around the world is so depressing and not because its there but because truth is right next to it and nobody's looking.

That much is obvious. Japan only has miniscule amount of foreigners compared to other countries but somehow managed to also have been stoken up with anti-foreign sentiment. It's all the dark money flowing into social media algorithms brainwashing people. And the truth is that data is the new gold. Personal information is not only commodified but also weaponised. However, as you said, the truth is next to it but nobody is looking.

I'd like to clarify that I had never hardly ever pooped on a street.

They're scared. If you believe the info out there, population collapse is imminent. Someone shouting out patriotism, rallying the people, is probably a comforting thought to them. They need someone to blame, the outsiders are easiest.

When people don't feel they can afford the time and money to have kids, populations break and noone is addressing it. The world could probably stand to have some population regulation back down from 8bil, but this isn't the way :(

Their society will collapse from this racism in a generation or so. No point in correcting people who can't see the writing on the wall. As much as the current regime tries to deny it, immigrants have been the strength of the US.