Quote: (08-07-2017 04:41 PM)Travel Museums Wrote:
Here is a good example illustrating the problem with even a highly developed country like Japan. If people don't have babies and you don't suck in foreigners IT DOESN'T WORK.
Japan was so picky in late 2000s they PAID Brazilian-Japanese to go back to Brazil permanently. Most of these people were genetically Japanese 100% and that still wasn't good enough.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/japa...gn-nurses/
Now no one wants to have kids, the population is aging, they can't afford to take care of them (nor have the trained professionals to do so), young people will work to death, and are more pessimistic than Brazilians. Do we bring in the unemployed SEA nurses? Hmm, how about robot bears instead!
At least they reinvested and developed the country's infrastructure and industries though.
This issue is not singular to Japan. It is one that many other Western countries are now facing. The question is how to encourage the younger generations to have children? Any other solution like increased immigration simply invites other problems that frankly are seldom considered deeply. I would be curious to know though how much Japan's reasons for seeing these changes mirror the reasons of people in Western countries. Are they largely the same such as rise of woman's rights, promotion of nihilism over religion, academic support like zero population growth theory, etc.?