Bro just allow more immigrants in
Open… the country… Stop… having it be closed…
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
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
Fun fact: Brazil is also now visa free for Japan
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
government seizing unused houses would be authoritarian
Government buying unused houses at a market price is also authoritarian
Why would buying be authoritarian? Wouldn’t that be a great way to create affordable social housing?
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.
