https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/19/japan-asks-young-people-views-marriage-population-crisis
The economist Takashi Kadokura said on a Yahoo Japan news blog that local government efforts to promote marriage were not working and marriages were not increasing because of the growing number of non-regular workers who found it financially difficult to start a family.
It's super cool that capitalism has scraped things so close to the bone that workers in the core can no longer afford to reproduce.
They long for that sweet 1800 again, but there is no rural population to infinitely replace workers worked to death anymore.
I genuinely think USs game plan is to get the conditions bad enough that people are working factories and farms so they can compete with the rest of the world still
Or/also forever use illegal immigrants to replace the disillusioned citizens in this enshittification cycle
Parenti talked about this decades ago, the dream for the bourgeoisie is roll the calendar back to around 1900.
Great minds think alike or parenti stole it fron me
Theres some thread ive been pulling lately that in a developed society, only a generation or two is going to want to grind out of poverty and its unreasonable to think that society will want to do this forever, theres no point to living if you cant expect a good future or any fruit from your labor
The only thing a capitalist country can really do to combat this is to enshittify which i think is what the US has been doing and Japan is doing in their own way
When you have to start enshittifying your country i believe thats when you can instead move to the stages of socialism
Almost makes ya wonder if it’s an intentional Malthusian type beat of indirect population culling through economic repression. Literally force the poors into economic extinction since they’re demonstrably too dumb and/or unmotivated to abstractly contribute to human progress through capital accumulation
Nah, there's nothing intentional about the macroscopic cannibalism of capital. It's just what it does when it runs out of people to exploit elsewhere
Agreed. I wish it was a plan, because that would imply planner(s) who could be fought against. Instead, it's the logical outcome of the entire system.
Just another day in the holy land of the Prosperity Gospel.
Shovel the poors into the military for the next big war