How is Japan in such a big pickle with the population shrinking. If an economy is based on a kids being born so they grow and sustain the aging population, how did Japan, a country known for their meticulous approach to everything, got themselves in this situation. For sure they must have seen it coming 20-30 years ago.
What went wrong? If they got it worn, how do we have it right? With the government not providing any kind of meaningful incentives for families to have kids, when will the 24th hour come for the rest of us?
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People in Japan are very career driven, this gets in the way of reproduction.
I’ve heard this career-first mentality not as bad now as in the past, but it is still there.
>With the government not providing any kind of meaningful incentives for families to have kids, when will the 24th hour come for the rest of us?
Government incentives are ineffective at preventing fertility decline in every country they have been tried. I suppose ending it would require some sort of major social change in how people think about family versus career.
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