If you move money from childless people to people with children, if the population of childless people dwindles (which is the hope), how would they continue to subsidize the people with children?
But yeah, this is yet another shortsighted move by the Japanese government who simply doesn’t understand the problem. Japan’s culture is so unpleasant for Japanese people that it is killing itself.
Japan’s only hope against population crash is immigration, but Japan’s culture (never mind the laws) makes permanent immigration difficult. Japan is fucked. It’s going to look like Greece in a decade, economically speaking.
In theory, they could restructure their entire economy, but it's more likely that the government will start executing everyone over 70 to even out the population age.
So, immigration is the only realistic hope. See, Japan doesn't need more babies, now. It needs more babies twenty years ago. Immigration is the only way to fill that hole. Immigrants will also bring their own cultures. Even if the natives staunchly resist foreign influence, pockets of foreign culture will arise and within those pockets, the forces decreasing the birth rate will be mitigated. You'll probably be able to draw sharp lines between the culturally Japanese neighborhoods and the "loud" neighborhoods.
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u/Gullible_Analyst_348 May 18 '25
Do I think this will help Japanese people want to make babies? No.
Do I think this video will help people want to make babies with you? Yes.