SmokeAndMirrors
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No. I said that the Japanese have never seen fertility rates dip this low. That is why the nation with the mega-city of Tokyo now buys more adult-diapers than baby-diapers. No civilization has survived having a fertility rate that low; but instead have been reduced and absorbed into others. That is Japans' future.
That's funny. I live in Japan and that's not what I see at all. Methinks you are rather exagerating the agreably more traditional roles they have over here. But, for example, our neighbor has three kids, and she works, and is just as happy and in control of her own house as my wife, who doesn't (although she is more stressed because hey, she's working and a mom, that's a harder juggle than one or the other. Sweet lady though, we trade Japanese for American dishes all the time).
Funny. That's not what Japense women on the whole have to say.
Project MUSE - <i>Women and Family in Contemporary Japan</i> (review)
I don't even know why I bother posting evidence for you anymore, but there ya go.
No, there aren't. Not least for the simple enough reason that this is mathematically impossible. You cannot have an "elderly bulge" stabilize because 40 million 45 year olds cannot become 50 million 55 year olds ten years later.
You do know that downwards trends do not always lead to zero, just as upwards trends do not always carry on to infinity, right?
Also, I'm pretty sure I just said that 10 years is far too short a window to make any judgement about where a society is headed.
No, most of Europe has been approaching this for many years, just as we have been approaching the insolvency of our own entitlement systems when the Baby Boomers retire. That's most of the reason why southern Europe (which has had the lowest fertility rates) is currently facing insolvency.
Some of the countries who are currently better off are approaching an elderly bulge and have low fertility rates.
There are so many things wrong with this I don't even know where to begin.
Given that I stopped debating *you* a long time ago, with it went willingness to do this at length, I will simply say that comparing our entitlement system to the death prisons a lot of the Eastern block sent people to is absolutely insane, and that one can clearly see that entitlement programs are not the main issue when comparing all the places that have them with radically different outcomes: most tellingly, America.
Is there anything you see as bad in the entire world that you do not think is caused by people not breeding enough for your liking?
Why in the world would you want to have a positive influence? And how can you say you have no goal or that the human population is irrelevant and argue in the next breath how it would be a good thing if there were fewer of us? Both of these things cannot be true. Either we are irrelevant and it does not matter if there are 6 or 60 billion of us, or we are not, and these things do matter.
Because I'm a generally empathetic person.
There is a difference between an opinion and a goal. I am off the opinion humanity would be better served by bringing their population down across the board. But I am not out to make that society's trajectory because I won't live to see it, and neither will anyone whose life I am responsible for. They can do what they see fit.
So humans are not irrelevant.
Not to me. But to the universe, yes, they are.
On the contrary, it was a superior model than hunting-gathering which is why we adopted it. Then we industrialized, which in turn was a superior model and so we adopted that.
Only if you judge on pure numbers, but that would be dishonest, since hunter-gathering relies on maintaining small numbers.
Hunter gatherer societies still exist. They live well into their 60's and they work less than we do -- even now. Why fix what ain't broke?
It wasn't a superior model, and it still isn't in the long run. It was the only model available to us unless we were just going to kill everyone.
Gosh you like that word. :lol: Oh parents are so parochial, and you know, they're like, parochialistic, with all their parochialism, and stuff. Me and my friends sitting down at the coffee shop talking about how, like, there's like, poverty and stuff, in like, Africa and stuff are like, so much more, like broad, you know? :roll: :lol:
It's the most accurate descriptor for your mindset.
So when you run out of things to actually say, you just have a tantrum. How completely unsurprising.
As for my parents, one of them is, and the other definitely isn't. Parenting, like location, does not necessarily dictate ones world view.