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Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low
(www.independent.co.uk)
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If the Japanese want people to work 80 hour weeks (and go drinking with their boss every night) maybe they should make polyamorous marriage a thing. Kids are a lot easier to deal with if you have help.
From what i heard from people and read online, i really don't understand how people even do that. Japanese work etiquette is bananas. But that aside, my job is somewhat high demand, but i draw the line at work hours. I work 42 hours a week and not a second longer. That opens up enough times for some hobbies, enough free time and everything. But if i had kids, most of that would be gone. So if you're a work horse, you're expected to give up everything, except work and raising kids.
Literally: they don't go home, that's how
Hearing about salary men sleeping on the streets or in train stations is one thing, but when I actually finally saw them in person it broke my fucking brain
Imagine the homelessness issues of a major Californian city but instead of homeless people it's a bunch of clearly drunk dudes in suits who all vanish by morning
My wife cried hard because the realization hit that hard
That's certainly a take on "family business".
Yeah. Only rich people should have exclusive access to women.
You seem sarcastic, but biologically speaking, the children of rich parents are much more likely to be born rich themselves. Isn't that a direction we want to evolve into for humanity, given that being born poor has so many negative outcomes?
me and my ex already both tested poor before we had our first baby, so we went ahead with the abortion because the dotor determined he was going to be born poor anway
Bro, what? Biologically speaking? What are you talking about?
The kids of rich people are rich because their parents are rich. They grow up to be rich because they have their parents wealth, which they either use to create more, or just stay rich.
The fact that they're rich has nothing to do with their "biology".
What are you proposing anyway? That only rich people procreate and then somehow eventually everyone will be rich? If you can do simple math like addition and subtraction, you'll realize that that scenario is not possible.
Plus wealth generally means power and connections, all of which makes it easier for someone to get wealthy.
Microsoft would almost certainly have never become what it is if Bill Microsoft wasn't wealthy enough to have a family computer ahead of most people being able to have one at home, and his mother wasn't friends with an IBM chair.
Naturally, IBM would be much more likely to hire someone who comes with the recommendation of a higher-up than Afferige Mann, who is applying based on an ad in the paper, and has only worked retail.
Plus wealth gives a safety net. It didn't matter for Bill if the first few Microsofts failed, he can try again until he hits it big. Afferige has non-such luck. If he starts a company and it folds, he may not have the money to start another.
That's a form of eugenics. More specifically, it would be classed as "positive social eugenics".
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The use of the term "positive" does not mean it is a "good" thing. It just means that individuals with percieved "desirable" traits are encouraged to mate more than the "undesirables". Conversely, an example of negative eugenics would be murdering/sterilizing the "undesirables"."Social eugenics" simply means that the "desirable" trait is not genetic, but rather a social construct, in this case wealth.
If we can all be rich, then sure.
Otherwise it's just a tool to breed average people out of the gene pool. The end result are rulers and servants. Guess which one your kids will be.
Keep in mind, the only reason why some people don't have enough is because others have too much.
I think we all largely get what you're speaking to but I feel compelled to highlight that you can't breed average people out. "Rulers" and "servants" are social classes, and not "in the gene pool."
The message got a little muddled there.
Actually, you can. I'm referring to the middle class and their increasing difficulty in raising a family. A significant amount of them are choosing not to, which literally means they don't get to carry on their lineage.
I'm not going to get into the whys, but very poor people do not have the issue with reproducing that the middle class has.
There is no "middle class". There's labor and capital. You're either serving or getting served. I know very well where I'm at. :/
Duckduckgo "myth middle class" and take your poison of choice.
That's not entirely true.
People in the middle class have disposable income that lower class people do not. Many of them have enough wealth to live comfortably for the rest of their lives without ever having to work again.
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