Re:Japan's Abe is the world's best leader right now?
by crdoconnor on Monday June 16, 2014 @12:46AM
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>I think the main cause is the stark choice Japanese women face: keep your career and status that you've worked so hard for, or give it all up and raise children for a man you'll hardly get to see.
This is part of it too. As is the migration towards cities (because that's where all the jobs are). Huge crowds and a lack of space has the same effect on humans as it does on rats.
Mix those things up with the younger generation's feelings of hopelessness and/or insecurity about their careers and it's no wonder they've stopped having children.
This can be reversed with a government funded jobs program / public works program, EXACTLY like the one Milton Friedman took full advantage of.
It won't be reversed with immigration.
>About immigration: go look up "lump of labour fallacy".
I never said that there was a fixed amount of work in Japan.
If you think that bringing in 3rd world workers as competition isn't going to drag down wages, though, you're dreaming.
This is part of it too. As is the migration towards cities (because that's where all the jobs are). Huge crowds and a lack of space has the same effect on humans as it does on rats.
Mix those things up with the younger generation's feelings of hopelessness and/or insecurity about their careers and it's no wonder they've stopped having children.
This can be reversed with a government funded jobs program / public works program, EXACTLY like the one Milton Friedman took full advantage of.
It won't be reversed with immigration.
>About immigration: go look up "lump of labour fallacy".
I never said that there was a fixed amount of work in Japan.
If you think that bringing in 3rd world workers as competition isn't going to drag down wages, though, you're dreaming.