Wouldn't that make the Japanese locals happy as that means (in theory) 7 new job vacancies and 7 more free homes on the market for them?
Even if that's not exactly how this works in practice, if that's how voters see it, then they will support it.
It would be nice for everybody to be happy but its clear Japanese who are the rightful owners of the land are not, and thus they have a right to vote and through consensus decide on what they perceive to be best for their national interests.
Maybe it's good for them maybe it's not but it won't be heard like all the comments here including mine or visible to real Japanese people living in Japan.
Maybe that's how the AI apocalypse happens: AI generated memes and AI enhanced preferences for `clean` robot workers and purified isolation until the last human is informed she has to leave because some law requires it.
If you check out history books, you'll be surprised(or not) by how often that happens.
>What I find so sad about this is the lack of empathy for people that worked hard to build a life here, paid their taxes, and followed the law.
Economic hardships and scarcity will turn everyone into animals. Every society, even the most kind, peaceful and orderly is only 3 missing meals away from killing each other for the last piece of bread. Except before killing each other, they'll first kill foreigners. Story as old as time.
This is thrown around as some sort of truism that humans become animals at the smallest inconvenience; but there is simply no evidence for it. On the contrary, there is loads of evidence that humans work together and support each other especially well through hardship.
> most foreigner jobs (at least the ones my friends have) requiring fluent English
No. Japan already has low unemployment and high overtime demands due to worker shortages, and property is already cheap (even in most cities other than Tokyo) due to a combination of falling population, complex construction/demolition codes, changing lifestyles, and a different view of asset classes/investment practices from the US.
It's kinda like how nobody likes inflation (other than certain kinds of debtors) but a deflationary economy isn't a good solution to that problem. This will have a similar effect because the people leaving are likely to be the most culturally assimilated/affiliated with decent language skills etc., but their departure won't alleviate the demand for additional labor in industry and agriculture so there will probably still be a net increase in short-term and illegal foreign residency.
I feel sneaking in "at any given time" makes the fixed vs growable pie distinction pretty much meaningless; even printing fiat takes some time. At a certain time there's a certain number of doctors (and everything else), but the number of doctors in a country can obviously increase over time, including by immigration.
You need to be dull to not see that get trained adults that you never spent a cent in education to generate revenue and taxes and have no access to benefits is not a great deal.
Well, it is easy to be blind when you let a racist speech take your eyes.
> I know at least 7 people that have decided to leave Japan because of it.
> They were making enough money to support themselves, but under the rule they basically gave no chance of ever reaching that new income requirement.
Its quite a shock since historically the government has moved extremely slow when implementing policies that have a large impact. But the last 6 months have been extremely anxiety inducing with a new immigration change being announced and approved every month.