▲ 286 ▼ Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million on falling births (www.japantimes.co.jp) submitted 2 years ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's not an investment because at the end of a child's growth, you now have a consumer who requires more resources. You realize working people produce more resources than they consume, right? If they didn't, there would be no economy at all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Dude, where do you think our food, housing, and consumer goods come from? Your cynicism has overshot so far you're just denying the existence of the world around you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Dude, where do you think our food, People make products to sell to other people. When we build more homes than we have people to buy, prices go down. When there is more capital in the market than things to buy, people put it into investments which raises prices on those investments. 1946 US wasn't a post-apocalyptic hellscape because we only had a population of 140 million and 1 million of the most able bodied workers were killed/wounded. Your cynicism has overshot so far I'm not the one claiming a population decline is a death spiral. Japan is still so overcrowded that there are train conductors who jobs is to physically smash the riders into the train because there isn't enough room. https://imgur.com/gallery/cq7aBfT It is my opinion that like natural predator-prey-food cycles, when population declines enough that regular people can again afford to have children like they did after WW2 because wages were high and real estate was cheap, population will go up again. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Dude, where do you think our food, housing, and consumer goods come from? Your cynicism has overshot so far you're just denying the existence of the world around you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Dude, where do you think our food, People make products to sell to other people. When we build more homes than we have people to buy, prices go down. When there is more capital in the market than things to buy, people put it into investments which raises prices on those investments. 1946 US wasn't a post-apocalyptic hellscape because we only had a population of 140 million and 1 million of the most able bodied workers were killed/wounded. Your cynicism has overshot so far I'm not the one claiming a population decline is a death spiral. Japan is still so overcrowded that there are train conductors who jobs is to physically smash the riders into the train because there isn't enough room. https://imgur.com/gallery/cq7aBfT It is my opinion that like natural predator-prey-food cycles, when population declines enough that regular people can again afford to have children like they did after WW2 because wages were high and real estate was cheap, population will go up again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Dude, where do you think our food, housing, and consumer goods come from? Your cynicism has overshot so far you're just denying the existence of the world around you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Dude, where do you think our food, People make products to sell to other people. When we build more homes than we have people to buy, prices go down. When there is more capital in the market than things to buy, people put it into investments which raises prices on those investments. 1946 US wasn't a post-apocalyptic hellscape because we only had a population of 140 million and 1 million of the most able bodied workers were killed/wounded. Your cynicism has overshot so far I'm not the one claiming a population decline is a death spiral. Japan is still so overcrowded that there are train conductors who jobs is to physically smash the riders into the train because there isn't enough room. https://imgur.com/gallery/cq7aBfT It is my opinion that like natural predator-prey-food cycles, when population declines enough that regular people can again afford to have children like they did after WW2 because wages were high and real estate was cheap, population will go up again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Dude, where do you think our food, People make products to sell to other people. When we build more homes than we have people to buy, prices go down. When there is more capital in the market than things to buy, people put it into investments which raises prices on those investments. 1946 US wasn't a post-apocalyptic hellscape because we only had a population of 140 million and 1 million of the most able bodied workers were killed/wounded. Your cynicism has overshot so far I'm not the one claiming a population decline is a death spiral. Japan is still so overcrowded that there are train conductors who jobs is to physically smash the riders into the train because there isn't enough room. https://imgur.com/gallery/cq7aBfT It is my opinion that like natural predator-prey-food cycles, when population declines enough that regular people can again afford to have children like they did after WW2 because wages were high and real estate was cheap, population will go up again. permalink fedilink source parent