Begging my population to have kids instead of doing anything to address the conditions that make it impossible for enough of them to have kids
Oh yeah
Move over material analysis, It's idealism as politics time
For what I've heard japanese spend a lot of time working and their economy isn't that great. People mostly avoid having children under these conditions for good reasons.
It's not much better in the rest of the West too. Turns out that building a society where money and career determines your social status and doing unpaid work like taking care of a family and raising children is not valued at all and even very expensive makes people choose to have less or no children.
People of course do want children, but those that do very often will choose one or two children, below replacement rate.
pays for the children of non-working people (there's a shitload of subsidies going into their pockets),
Do children deserve to starve because their parents aren't employed?
Do children deserve to starve because their parents aren't employed?
Because they don't want to work. There's enough jobs.
people deserve to starve in an age of plenty
this pigbrained subhuman cruelty betrays you as an american citizen, thank god your shithole is in decline lol you should all rot and die there for the good of the world
Can you maybe not see entire groups as the same?
There are Americans that routinely get sent to jail protesting/fighting to change America for the better every day. There are those of us in this very thread that agree with you calling the other commentor a pigbrained subhuman. The strict adherence to an absolutely shit narrative given to them by Reich Wing Media disgusts a large portion of our population.
It's not entirely our fault that propaganda is so effective at keeping the absolute worst possible people in office and rotting the brains of our neighbors. The blame rests on the oligarchs and ultra wealthy assholes looking to divide and conquer, turning all of us against each other while they laugh all the way to their 3rd private island...
I agree, some of you are alright, it is the elite of america and the very notion of "america" as a nation itself which must ultimately face justice for this situation. I hope you have a good day.
America falling apart would be horrifyingly destructive for the rest of the world, for it will allow other corrupt capitalist powers that are, let's be honest, not as humane, take over the rest of the world.
Then again, the destabilization of the U.S. is well under way and our collapse is inevitable so I guess disputing it is a moot point.
America falling apart would be horrifyingly destructive for the rest of the world, for it will allow other corrupt capitalist powers that are, let's be honest, not as humane, take over the rest of the world.
Well technically the continuation of america is more destructive than its inevitable decline, since america has a very awful pattern of killing millions of people for the enrichment of its elite, via means such as invasions, installing genocidal puppet leaders, and corporate extraction. The worst part is that america often destroys countries just as their people are on the brink of greater liberation.
Notable examples include:
Installing the Taliban in Afghanistan to oppose a Socialist government then destroying it
Destroying Iraq for Oil
Helping quash the Protocommunist Taiping Rebellion in China
The current blockade of Cuba
The current blockade of North Korea
The murder of socialist president Salvador Allende in Chile and the installation of Pinochet, a neoliberal dictator
The Contras
Sending $3 billion a year to isntreal for the mass killing of Palestinians
The genocide of first nations peoples on the North American continent itself
Assassinating Fred Hampton and the political killings of the Black Panther Party
Meddling in the affairs of practically every single third world country on Earth
Fucking Monsanto and their land grabbing bullshit
It is also probably the most inhumane of the corrupt capitalist powers as revealed in the details of these genocidal ventures either by using its own weapons or by proxy.
As such, the death of america would enable the possibility of a flourishing of socialist nations without the threat of the worlds most powerful military brought to full bear against their people for daring to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
America falling apart would be horrifyingly destructive for the rest of the world, for it will allow other corrupt capitalist powers that are, let's be honest, not as humane, take over the rest of the world.
This is what every imperial power says about itself
Damn it's too bad we won't have the humane government that did the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and invented Eugenics
Why the American flag. How do you know I’m speaking about US?
Get a grip.
Capitalism by its nature has an interest in keeping part of the working class unemployed. Look up "reserve army of labor".
the children of non-working people
Your wording alone demonstrates exactly what SloppyEngineer said about unpaid work not being valued at all.
When you work 8 hours a day, have 1 hour lunch break, waste 2 hours commuting, to earn barely enough of what Adam Smith considers ideal (twice the cost of living), it's hard to sustain a second person, much less a third that requires near constant monitoring for over 7 years.
From a pure economic perspective, a child is a total money sink for at least 18 years. In many places (mostly urban), it's simply not viable to have one.
Short term, raise the minimum wage. Force walmart to fill the gaps between what they pay and what their workers need to live. Right now, it's the government is subsidizing that gap.
Gigantic mothefucking emphasis on short term.
Our
piece of shit, bought and paid forpoliticians LOVE to pull the "we're fighting to raise the minimum wage from X to Y!" but only over such a long timeline that the value of Y equals what X was... God forbid the Job Creators™©® have to ever actually pay more.Agreed, but getting an increase in minimum wage would get the ball rolling on other worker right reforms.
Why the hell is the government subsidising what a huge mega corp pays?
Because rich assholes need to feel speshul, so they waste money on lobbying to ensure those below them never get anywhere
Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
The rich can pay lobbyists to pay politicians.
The US government already subsidizes companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon because they force their lowest-paid employees to apply for food stamps even though they work.
It's crazy how much doesn't even get done. No one wants to leave before their boss, so they space out their work and give the appearance of being busy.
Well for example, I leave before my boss all the time. Hell I work from home most days if I can.
If that's normal, then this defense is a fatal indictment of normal
For what I've heard japanese spend a lot of time working
According to the OECD, the average Japanese worker works just about the same number of hours per year as the average EU worker. It's actually pretty surprising because the average Japanese worker seems to work less than workers in countries that most people do not think of as being overworked (e.g. Canada, Spain, Italy).
Of course, averages don't account for distribution, so there absolutely are workers who are chronically overworked. There's also more part-time workers in Japan, which kind of explains things. On the other hand, you then have to ask how/why it's financially feasible for so many people to sustain their livelihoods with only part time work.
I stand corrected comrade. I admit I lack the technical expertise on doohickeys, I need to study more.
One day you too will know such arcane things, and everyone will like you very much.
Abe was a fascist shit, he deserved it.
Gotta do the rest of the liberal party too unfortunately though.
Shinzo Abe was a clown and Japan's abortion laws are draconian.
Kishida is Fash and also extremely unpopular. I think he's focusing on security issues because he knows he's going to be ousted by someone else soon and the Yanks are offering him something behind the scenes to force through unpopular war laws before he goes (including an extremely unpopular consumption tax increase to fund military spending).
This dude at one point promised to increase wages and the first thing he did was consult with the Shosha (trading companies, socially and financially Japan's equivalent of Wall St, remnants of the Zaibatsu) about how they could pay their people more. Just imagine Biden promising to increase wages and the first thing he does is go talk to Goldman Sachs about paying their bankers more.
Dude has the political instincts of a lemming.
Bear children to feed into the soulless machine of neoliberal international capital ? No thanks Abe, I choose extinction. Humanity would have been gone long ago, we just didn't realise we had the choice to not continue existing. Thank you inventor of abortion and contraceptive pill finally we can escape this horrible planet and cease to exist.
"neo liberal"
There's nothing "liberal" about forcing people to breed to protect corporations and their profits. That's not what that word means.
not so fast, Abe-sama. I have the power of Hexbear emojis now
