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.

  • fox [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    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

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      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.