Survey: Only 10% of young men with low incomes get married (Japan) (www.asahi.com)
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[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 15:16 next collapse

Only about 10 percent of men aged 21 to 30 with annual incomes below 2 million yen ($13,400) get married, underscoring the need for wage hikes to lift Japan’s low birthrate, the labor ministry said.

Once again, a more equal and fair society without large gaps in wealth leads to better outcomes.

[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 15:26 next collapse

Ok, but how can we fix the plummeting birthrate without affecting the rich?

[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 15:34 next collapse

That’s the neat part, we can’t. Tax the rich or even better, create a system/culture that doesn’t deify billionaires and glorify the idea of amassing wealth beyond a reasonable point.

(as an aside, is lower birthrates really that bad? On a country-level yes perhaps but on a global scale we really need fewer humans)

[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 17:06 collapse

There is a neat little study confirming it

stoppopulationdecline.org/population-aging-wealth…

[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 16:58 next collapse

“fix”?

Plummeting birth rates is what the whole world should be striving for.

[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 17:05 collapse

Kudos, the Rich are doing that job just fine

[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 18:17 collapse

That’s why they take so many private flights, to offset all the carbon credits of the billions of lives they’re indirectly preventing or destroying.

[email protected] on 05 Oct 2023 09:21 collapse

Plummeting birth rates are a good thing as clearly explained in the documentary Idiocracy.

[email protected] on 05 Oct 2023 04:43 collapse

I wonder if anyone even disputes that, or if it’s just a question of some people wanting better outcomes and some people wanting extreme wealth.

[email protected] on 05 Oct 2023 06:18 collapse

I think there are definitely those that dispute that. There are also plenty of regular middle class people who would readily defend the absurd salaries of top earning CEOs with arguments like “but if he creates 100 million dollars of value, shouldn’t he get that payment?”.

[email protected] on 04 Oct 2023 18:56 next collapse

I’m having trouble finding the original white paper.

[email protected] on 05 Oct 2023 04:42 collapse

It’s interesting to me that the men are not marrying at all because that means the women also are going unmarried. And though these guys wouldn’t have much to offer financially, I’d expect there to be poor women also who are even worse off on their own than married. Most societies don’t have a great life to offer single women. Maybe Japan does?