Community’s 25yrs without a newborn shows scale of Japan’s population crisis

Re:Community’s 25yrs without a newborn shows scale of Japan’... by Brybry on Saturday March 18, 2023 @02:52AM (#35206788)

But we also seriously increased our paid labor pool with women in the 20th century (and there are also certainly people who don't work who probably could work given the right stimulus).

I think we'd need some research/math to see at what working population to non-working population ratio this is actually a problem (and what fertility rate is safe to avoid this if it is indeed a problem).

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Re:Community’s 25yrs without a newborn shows scale of Japan’... by qwytw on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:46AM (#35218843)

True but some of the jobs women who were not technically in the labor force did are now provided by others .e.g cooking, childcare, washing (well automatic washing machines, which is obviously a magnitude or more efficient than washing by hand and a bunch of other housework which used to require way more labor.

> working population to non-working population ratio this is actually a problem

True. Overall I find it a bit (well huge understatement...) disappointing that while productive has increased tremendously that has not been reflected so well in compensation (for most people for a privileged minority it's the complete opposite) or working hours.

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