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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by vetinari on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @08:37AM (#11019326)
Immigration will not solve the problem of aging population. In a generation or two, the immigrants would face exactly the same problem.

Because with immigration, you didn't solve the underlying cause of why people don't have kids. You just muddled the observable status for a while.

Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by true_religion on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:31AM (#11020426)
In politics, pushing the need to solve a problem into the distance for 30-40 years is a good thing.
Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by yuiyui on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @10:25AM (#11019959)
> you didn't solve the underlying cause of why people don't have kids.

Exactly. And the cause is the mutually reinforced effect of capitalist consumerism and feminism.

Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @10:45AM (#11020113)
I don't see how capitalism or feminism is the cause of Japan's low birth rate. Could you explain?
Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by vetinari on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:04AM (#11020246)
Capitalism could be indirectly responsible.

One of the causes why people postpone having children is financial insecurity. In their mid-twenties they cannot afford to have a home, they are unable to secure the costs of first few years of raising child, when they don't know if they will have a job in three months and they have zero savings. Add student loans to the mix, popular desires to travel the world, to "live" and it's obvious why the developed countries have problems with natality.

One of the reason of population boom in Czechoslovakia in 1970's was the policy of support of young families. Newly wed pairs were were provided security, they got their own homes, they had job security[1], they got financial support for raising children. It wasn't a luxury, you couldn't lead a lavish life, but you knew that if you have a child, everything will be OK.

[1] we are abstracting from the fact, that in socialist countries it was unlawful to be jobless. You were provided a job, but it didn't have to be a one you would like.

Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:15AM (#11020332)
Does Japan have the same issues with student loans and such that USA might have?

Otherwise, thank you for the explanation and I do apologize for my ignorance.

(Also, I'm still confused about the feminism thing)

Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by vetinari on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:31AM (#11020429)
With the feminism thing, it was some other guy, won't help you much with that, sorry. I'm ignorant about that too.
Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by zhemao on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:35PM (#11021364)
Might be referring to the fact that many Japanese women choose not to marry and have kids because it is essentially career suicide. There's a very strong cultural bias against working mothers in Japan.
Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by bigmanwalter on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:08PM (#11021152)
I think he meant the whole thing where women can now decide if the want to keep the baby or not.
Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:23PM (#11021273)
Women have always been able to decide, with terrible consequences. Putting up your baby for adoption or abandoning it at an orphanage is pretty old?
Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by bigmanwalter on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @10:01PM (#11024482)
Except for the whole part where they would get ostracized from society if people were to find out that they abandoned their child?