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.
That’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)
I 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?”.
Once again, a more equal and fair society without large gaps in wealth leads to better outcomes.
Ok, but how can we fix the plummeting birthrate without affecting the rich?
That’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)
There is a neat little study confirming it
https://www.stoppopulationdecline.org/population-aging-wealth-inequality-has-a-relationship/
“fix”?
Plummeting birth rates is what the whole world should be striving for.
Kudos, the Rich are doing that job just fine
That’s why they take so many private flights, to offset all the carbon credits of the billions of lives they’re indirectly preventing or destroying.
Plummeting birth rates are a good thing as clearly explained in the documentary Idiocracy.
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.
I 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?”.