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Re:Japan Shrinks by 500k People as Births Fall to Lowest Num... by fjoetna on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:00AM (#21882700)
Reading this makes me sad and a little bit angry. It is ridiculous that a company/employer might suggest your right of getting children. In a different context this would be considered a joke or something you would read about in a dystopian book, but instead it's happening in one of the most developed countries in the would.
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Re:Japan Shrinks by 500k People as Births Fall to Lowest Num... by 0ldblu3 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:39AM (#21884951)
You are conflating economic development and social development. Go check out some youtube channels from westerners living in Japan and you'll see that the economic development has had a cost. I don't really know how to define it because it's their society and I can't put my American values on it, but the salaryman thing has a cost. This birthrate issue is probably it. Will Japan eventually collapse because of it?
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