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NeoCortex42 [TotalFark]
2023-03-18 12:47:57 PM  
Maybe horrible work-life balance leads to people not having time for a family?
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
7 days ago  
Ease up on your immigration policies and stop putting so much emphasis on racial purity. Population crisis solved. The world as a whole has no shortage of humans.
 
nealb2 [TotalFark]
7 days ago  
That's what pixilated porn does for you.
 
RolandTGunner [TotalFark]
6 days ago  
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Petey4335
6 days ago  
In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.
 
watching the trump puddle dry
6 days ago  

NeoCortex42: Maybe horrible work-life balance leads to people not having time for a family?


Good thing that's not happening here
 
watching the trump puddle dry
6 days ago  

Petey4335: In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.


Same thing is happening here, that's why abortion is gone and contraception is on the chopping block, the wealthy know they need a desperate population forced to work for nothing if they're gonna keep their unbridled free ride going
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

NeoCortex42: Maybe horrible work-life balance leads to people not having time for a family?


More like being picky.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

Ivo Shandor: Ease up on your immigration policies and stop putting so much emphasis on racial purity. Population crisis solved. The world as a whole has no shortage of humans.


🏆 🏆 🐔 🍽
 
foo monkey
6 days ago  

Ivo Shandor: Ease up on your immigration policies and stop putting so much emphasis on racial purity. Population crisis solved. The world as a whole has no shortage of humans.


You said, "as-a-whole."
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
6 days ago  
Seems like they are on the right track, once they clear the hurdle of excess elderly population they will be better off than the rest of the world.  Adding more people isn't really a good solution to the problem of too many people.  They are on an island with relatively limited resources, they can't just expand into the open desert like we do in the US.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

watching the trump puddle dry: Petey4335: In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.

Same thing is happening here, that's why abortion is gone and contraception is on the chopping block, the wealthy know they need a desperate population forced to work for nothing if they're gonna keep their unbridled free ride going


Finely a theory that tracks 👣
 
Reverend J
6 days ago  
If all those trucks would stop running over twenty-somethings from Tokyo and sending them on magical adventurers maybe they wouldn't have such a problem.
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] [OhFark]
6 days ago  
"In thinking of the sustainability and inclusiveness of our nation's economy and society, we place ...


BAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHA!
 
trialpha
6 days ago  

Ivo Shandor: Ease up on your immigration policies and stop putting so much emphasis on racial purity. Population crisis solved. The world as a whole has no shortage of humans.


It seems the Japanese don't see much of a difference between a Japan dying out and a Japan populated by foreigners.
 
Sleeper_agent
6 days ago  
It really makes no sense to me. It's a beautiful safe country with great food and every biome/climate you could want. Even the practically free houses you can have out in the country are walking distance to a row of vending machines where you can help out your 7 year old daughter if she has an accident in public (though I don't understand why the ones you buy are *also* dirty).

I'd have a thousand kids and raise them like My Neighbor Totoro.
 
Turbo Cojones
6 days ago  
I volunteer my services.  I make smart, pretty babies.
 
watching the trump puddle dry
6 days ago  

RogermcAllen: Seems like they are on the right track, once they clear the hurdle of excess elderly population they will be better off than the rest of the world.  Adding more people isn't really a good solution to the problem of too many people.  They are on an island with relatively limited resources, they can't just expand into the open desert like we do in the US.


Um the world has limited resources
 
Petey4335
6 days ago  

waxbeans: watching the trump puddle dry: Petey4335: In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.

Same thing is happening here, that's why abortion is gone and contraception is on the chopping block, the wealthy know they need a desperate population forced to work for nothing if they're gonna keep their unbridled free ride going

Finely a theory that tracks 👣


Yay. I'm going to go all bitter and quellist today.

"You are still young and stupid. Human life has no value. Haven't you learned that yet, Takeshi, with all you've seen? It has no value, intrinsic to itself. Machines cost money to build. Raw materials cost money to extract. But people?" She made a tiny spitting sound. "You can always get some more people. they reproduce like cancer cells, whether you want them or not. They are abundant, Takeshi. Why should they be valuable? Do you know that it costs us less to recruit and use up a real snuff whore than it does to set up and run the virtual equivalent format. Real human flesh is cheaper than a machine. It's the axiomatic truth of our times."
 
winedrinkingman
6 days ago  

NeoCortex42: Maybe horrible work-life balance leads to people not having time for a family?


That's exactly the problem, but they will never admit it is the problem because their rich elites build their whole fortunes off of using their Shinto Religious background to shame the common folk into sacrificing everything for work.  It's the Bushido Code, but instead of people tossing their lives away for the Emperor, they are throwing them away for Nissan and Toyota.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

Sleeper_agent: It really makes no sense to me. It's a beautiful safe country with great food and every biome/climate you could want. Even the practically free houses you can have out in the country are walking distance to a row of vending machines where you can help out your 7 year old daughter if she has an accident in public (though I don't understand why the ones you buy are *also* dirty).

I'd have a thousand kids and raise them like My Neighbor Totoro.


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Bslim
6 days ago  
I wouldn't want to bring more people into this shiathole planet either.
 
Burning_Sensation
6 days ago  

Turbo Cojones: I volunteer my services.  I make smart, pretty babies.


They will all be fighting for your inheritance.
 
watching the trump puddle dry
6 days ago  

Bslim: I wouldn't want to bring more people into this shiathole planet either.


That's the calculus right there
 
watching the trump puddle dry
6 days ago  

waxbeans: watching the trump puddle dry: Petey4335: In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.

Same thing is happening here, that's why abortion is gone and contraception is on the chopping block, the wealthy know they need a desperate population forced to work for nothing if they're gonna keep their unbridled free ride going

Finely a theory that tracks 👣


You think politicians actually believe in religion, no buddy, that stuff is just a means to an end for those folks
 
Kalyco Jack
6 days ago  

RolandTGunner: [Fark user image image 391x228]


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Klom Dark
6 days ago  
I volunteer to impregnate as many hot Japanese girls as needed!
 
Kalyco Jack
6 days ago  

Petey4335: In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.


THIS!!!!!
 
Mr.Insightful
6 days ago  
Headline: "Population Crisis"

Reality: Japan has a population density of 338.2 persons per square km.  Compared to the US's 36 per square km.

In the 1950s, Japan's population was 2/3rds of what it is today.

They're fine.

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rainbowbutter
6 days ago  
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they are just being responsible.  you screw around too much, you might end up taking a belt sander to the face
 
Kalyco Jack
6 days ago  
Maybe it's time to go interspecies...
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Mister Peejay
6 days ago  

Mr.Insightful: Headline: "Population Crisis"

Reality: Japan has a population density of 338.2 persons per square km.  Compared to the US's 36 per square km.

In the 1950s, Japan's population was 2/3rds of what it is today.

They're fine.

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Now do an age chart.

Someone once told me that Japan was investing heavily in robotics because there weren't enough young people to handle the amount of elder care they were going to need soon, and they were too racist to allow heavy immigration.  I wasn't sure if serious.
 
sinko swimo
6 days ago  

Sleeper_agent: It really makes no sense to me. It's a beautiful safe country with great food and every biome/climate you could want. Even the practically free houses you can have out in the country are walking distance to a row of vending machines where you can help out your 7 year old daughter if she has an accident in public (though I don't understand why the ones you buy are *also* dirty).

I'd have a thousand kids and raise them like My Neighbor Totoro.


there is now a metric farkton of young professional women who can sustain themselves and do not want to spend many years playing nursemaid to a husbands dementia ridden senior citizen parents.
 
Sleeper_agent
6 days ago  

Mr.Insightful: Headline: "Population Crisis"

Reality: Japan has a population density of 338.2 persons per square km.  Compared to the US's 36 per square km.

In the 1950s, Japan's population was 2/3rds of what it is today.

They're fine.

[Fark user image 850x533]


All metrics of everything must constantly increase by at least 3.5% annually other it is an affront to shareholders. Dynamic equilibrium and entropy are false constructs of greenies incompatible with the natural law of constant market growth.
 
New Rising Sun
6 days ago  

nealb2: That's what pixilated porn does for you.


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The Exit Stencilist
6 days ago  
How long until women are ordered to report to State run fertility camps for "patriotic duty"?
Not sure Japan would go that far, but Jesus loving' GOP America sure as hell would.
Lay back and think of Matt Gaetz
 
tonguedepressor [TotalFark]
6 days ago  
Maybe its because every single Japanese woman apparently sobs and cries for her demise to be swift while being entangled with a 4" entanglement.

When I was young I used to March for Dimes and collect aid for Save the Children.

Now I'd simply ask for a video of a Japanese woman espousing her pleasure during the act itself along with some recording of the people I've helped.

Is that too much to ask for watching all that wailing porn?
 
JungleBoogie
6 days ago  
Also, they could be enthusiastically making the beast with two backs. But thanks to the wonders of contraception, that doesn't have to result in a family of 12.
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
6 days ago  

watching the trump puddle dry: RogermcAllen: Seems like they are on the right track, once they clear the hurdle of excess elderly population they will be better off than the rest of the world.  Adding more people isn't really a good solution to the problem of too many people.  They are on an island with relatively limited resources, they can't just expand into the open desert like we do in the US.

Um the world has limited resources


That's the joke.  In Japan they are solving the problem with fewer people.  In the US we are solving the problem by building houses in the desert where there is no water.
 
Somaticasual [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

Kalyco Jack: Maybe it's time to go interspecies...
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Worst. psychic link. ever.

That squid's going to learn about the human experience through the eyes of an oblivious Japanese teenager...
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
6 days ago  

Turbo Cojones: I volunteer my services.  I make smart, pretty babies.


username checks out
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
6 days ago  

JungleBoogie: Also, they could be enthusiastically making the beast with two backs. But thanks to the wonders of contraception, that doesn't have to result in a family of 12.


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rnatalie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
6 days ago  

Kalyco Jack: RolandTGunner: [Fark user image image 391x228]

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Tom Marvolo Bombadil
6 days ago  
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thealgorerhythm
6 days ago  

watching the trump puddle dry: NeoCortex42: Maybe horrible work-life balance leads to people not having time for a family?

Good thing that's not happening here


Yeah but Republicans are bringing back child labor so after-school programs pay you. What a country!
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
6 days ago  
What is "the" problem? Well, as always, there are several:

Japan's high cost of living, limited space and lack of child care support in cities make it difficult to raise children, meaning fewer couples are having kids. Urban couples are also often far from extended family in other regions, who could help provide support.

For the slow ones in back:
1. High cost of living
2. Limited living space (in cities)
3. Lack of child care in cities (where the jobs are)
4. Lack of support networks (in cities where the jobs are)

If you have to move to an expensive city into a small apartment that's the best you can afford and there's no child care and your family is 500 miles away, then you're going to delay having kids (or just not have any), and there's no single or easy fix for that. Even in a society as rigid and structured as Japan's can't just mandate "women have kids" when there's no money to have them, no place to put them, and nobody to care for them.

America's about to have a similar problem, only it's going to be too many kids, but not enough money, not enough room, and not enough support. Maybe we can start shipping the spares to Japan as indentured servants.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

watching the trump puddle dry: waxbeans: watching the trump puddle dry: Petey4335: In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.

Same thing is happening here, that's why abortion is gone and contraception is on the chopping block, the wealthy know they need a desperate population forced to work for nothing if they're gonna keep their unbridled free ride going

Finely a theory that tracks 👣

You think politicians actually believe in religion, no buddy, that stuff is just a means to an end for those folks


? No. But. I'm always curious why people who hate people are making people have people.  This is the first explanation that makes sense to me.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
6 days ago  

Klom Dark: I volunteer to impregnate as many hot Japanese girls as needed!


And I'll be happy to smash the rest.
 
R.O.U.S
6 days ago  
1980s/90s: "OMG overpopulation will kill us all!"
Now: "OMG underpopulation is terrible!"

Make up your damn minds, sensationalist media :-P
 
Petey4335
6 days ago  

waxbeans: watching the trump puddle dry: waxbeans: watching the trump puddle dry: Petey4335: In all honesty? There are too many people. go Japan.

Same thing is happening here, that's why abortion is gone and contraception is on the chopping block, the wealthy know they need a desperate population forced to work for nothing if they're gonna keep their unbridled free ride going

Finely a theory that tracks 👣

You think politicians actually believe in religion, no buddy, that stuff is just a means to an end for those folks

? No. But. I'm always curious why people who hate people are making people have people.  This is the first explanation that makes sense to me.


Sociopathy.
 
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