Survey: Only 10% of young men with low incomes get married (Japan)
https:// www.asahi.com /ajw/articles/15021060 Survey: Only 10% of young men with low incomes get married (Japan)
Only about 10 percent of men aged 21 to 30 with annual incomes below 2 million yen ($13,400) get married, underscoring the need for wage hikes to lift Japan’s low birthrate, the labor ministry said.
Once again, a more equal and fair society without large gaps in wealth leads to better outcomes.
40Ok, but how can we fix the plummeting birthrate without affecting the rich?
7That's the neat part, we can't. Tax the rich or even better, create a system/culture that doesn't deify billionaires and glorify the idea of amassing wealth beyond a reasonable point.
(as an aside, is lower birthrates really that bad? On a country-level yes perhaps but on a global scale we really need fewer humans)
25Plummeting birth rates are a good thing as clearly explained in the documentary Idiocracy.
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I wonder if anyone even disputes that, or if it’s just a question of some people wanting better outcomes and some people wanting extreme wealth.
5I think there are definitely those that dispute that. There are also plenty of regular middle class people who would readily defend the absurd salaries of top earning CEOs with arguments like "but if he creates 100 million dollars of value, shouldn't he get that payment?".
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It’s interesting to me that the men are not marrying at all because that means the women also are going unmarried. And though these guys wouldn’t have much to offer financially, I’d expect there to be poor women also who are even worse off on their own than married. Most societies don’t have a great life to offer single women. Maybe Japan does?
8I'm having trouble finding the original white paper.
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