Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by brownbat on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:56PM (#18557954)

George Friedman wrote a book of creative predictions called "The Next 100 Years" that argued mounting depopulation pressures and labor shortages would lead countries to begin competing for migrants.

Interesting that has not been Europe's solution so far...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_100_Years:_A_Forecast...

Japan's politics, with a strong aversion to open immigration and a desperate need for labor, have landed on some controversial compromises--for one, "internships" for temporary foreign workers with questionable protection for rights. May be an early signal for how the rest of the world will handle this.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-skirts-immigration-debate...

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Re:Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses by Jyaif on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:10AM (#18559617)

> Interesting that has not been Europe's solution so far

Not all immigration is of equivalent "quality". The worsening IQ test results in europe is often credited to the african immigration. On the other end of the spectrum, asians are being actively restricted from entering the top schools in the US.

Europe (and pretty much every country in the world) is already competing for qualified immigration.

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