Japan has one of the fastest aging populations on earth, and the country's closed borders over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic have hastened the shrinkage of its workforce.
Japan needs about four times more foreign workers by 2040 to achieve the growth path the government has outlined in its economic forecast, a group of Tokyo-based public think tanks said on Thursday.
The matter of immigration has long been taboo in the world's third-largest economy where many people prize ethnic homogeneity.
But pressure has mounted to open borders and a shortage of blue-collar jobs has prompted the government to create new visa categories.
"Oy vey, your population is getting low! You need to bring in foreigners to work the jobs!"
This is the master plan of destroying any civilizations:
1. Infiltrate the society
2. Weaken tradition so that all anyone cares for is the economic situation
3. Destroy marriage, divide men and women as much as possible to facilitate plummeting birth rates
4. Suggest foreign ~~immigration~~ invasion as a solution to the deteriorating productivity
5. Promote the racial mixing of the population, the coup de grâce to ultimately destroy nationhood, achieving an insensate tributary state
Japan's population, like the rest of the world, is higher than it has ever been at any point in human history, due to exponential growth over the past couple of centuries. In recent years that growth has slowed and even slightly reversed in some places.
So... What, exactly, is the problem? What, exactly, is so tragic? What, exactly, was supposed to happen instead?
Was the population of a tiny island nation supposed to continue growing exponentially? Indefinitely? Forever? Would that be healthy? Would it even be physically possible? They're already living in literal pods in some places. They're already dumping trash in the ocean, and then building on top of it, just to make a bit of extra space to live on. Why the hysteria over their population going down a bit?
All populations, of all living things, go through cycles of growth and contraction. This is normal, natural, and necessary. Nothing can grow forever.
The only living thing that attempts to defy this pattern is called cancer. And it ends up killing itself, along with its host, as a result of its greed for endless growth.
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[ - ] 15MAR 3 points 2.9 yearsJun 3, 2022 19:11:17 ago (+3/-0)
"Oy vey, your population is getting low! You need to bring in foreigners to work the jobs!"
This is the master plan of destroying any civilizations:
1. Infiltrate the society
2. Weaken tradition so that all anyone cares for is the economic situation
3. Destroy marriage, divide men and women as much as possible to facilitate plummeting birth rates
4. Suggest foreign ~~immigration~~ invasion as a solution to the deteriorating productivity
5. Promote the racial mixing of the population, the coup de grâce to ultimately destroy nationhood, achieving an insensate tributary state
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[ - ] Spaceman84 [op] 0 points 2.9 yearsJun 3, 2022 19:13:09 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] yesiknow
[ - ] yesiknow 0 points 2.9 yearsJun 3, 2022 19:04:29 ago (+0/-0)
They're the news for low IQ skank "reporters"
[ + ] Spaceman84
[ - ] Spaceman84 [op] 0 points 2.9 yearsJun 3, 2022 19:14:38 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] GloryBeckons
[ - ] GloryBeckons 0 points 2.9 yearsJun 4, 2022 08:50:32 ago (+0/-0)
Japan's population, like the rest of the world, is higher than it has ever been at any point in human history, due to exponential growth over the past couple of centuries. In recent years that growth has slowed and even slightly reversed in some places.
So... What, exactly, is the problem? What, exactly, is so tragic? What, exactly, was supposed to happen instead?
Was the population of a tiny island nation supposed to continue growing exponentially? Indefinitely? Forever? Would that be healthy? Would it even be physically possible? They're already living in literal pods in some places. They're already dumping trash in the ocean, and then building on top of it, just to make a bit of extra space to live on. Why the hysteria over their population going down a bit?
All populations, of all living things, go through cycles of growth and contraction. This is normal, natural, and necessary. Nothing can grow forever.
The only living thing that attempts to defy this pattern is called cancer. And it ends up killing itself, along with its host, as a result of its greed for endless growth.