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Source - https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uterus-removal-for-women-at-30-japan-leaders-bizarre-proposal-to-boost-birth-rate-sparks-backlash-7000722
Nov 14, 2024 9:00 PM
Pally01
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Source - https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uterus-removal-for-women-at-30-japan-leaders-bizarre-proposal-to-boost-birth-rate-sparks-backlash-7000722
followmeiknowtheway
Now, if you wrote this in your dystopian fiction story, people would accuse you of jumping the shark or it being too unrealistic. This is why we have the phrase, truth is stranger than fiction. The real world is so much more grotesque and bizarre than anything we can dream up. Also, fuck that guy.
Sulexar
Only if you know literally nothing about japan.
SociallyInept1
Jesus christ. Yikes
FellaWithUmbrella
And next year in red states USA!
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
JStengah
Dudes will try anything except addressing the root causes of problems. Not enough people are having kids because it's too expensive and they're overworked? Let's force women (not any men of course) to choose between settling for the least worst man they can find by the time they're 25, then have them undergo forced sterilization.
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
this is so true. Here everyone is pissed off about the cost of living and housing and the government just proposed bans and policing on social media.
Skizmo
so, no marriage and removing the possibility of having children is supposed to boost the birth rate... Did this guy go to Trump University ?
redtails2649
He was a professor at trump University
beelzebob23
Seems like they are trying to force teenagers to be incubators.
wherethehorriblethingsare
Texas: Haha, teenagers.
stayingalive4life
Sounds like Matt Gaetz approved this.
JStengah
Just the women. None of the restrictions are aimed at men.
Skizmo
Just raise the price of condoms 100 fold and give away free alcohol ;)
GarmBlack
This reminds me of the "make bullets 1000$ each" gun control. If someone gets shot you KNOW they deserved it.
speedislife
This reminds me of the laws punishable by fines being optional for rich people.
Raventhief
Isn't Japan overcrowded?
laserfrog
Aging population... birthrate 'crisis' for a few decades now. Maintaining population can be births or immigration & funds services for olds
conMan76
yes.... with dying old farts
bippityboppitybuttsex
No... it has a doomsday-scenario population pyramid.
Skizmo
No, like a lot of countries these days they are having a child birth problem.
Corrodias
"problem" in huge air quotes
JayDeeDubs
Tokyo is crowded. Parts of Japan are becoming ghost towns as the population is shrinking
Corrodias
We act like having some land unpopulated by humans is a disaster. Global warming is a disaster. Shrinking population is just giving us more resources per capita.
JayDeeDubs
It's not *just* giving us that. For the aging Japanese population it creates real problems. When there are more pensioners than working adults, the system won't function, not to mention shortages of caregivers.
Corrodias
What percentage of the population do you suppose is engaged in the industry of elder care? As far as I can tell, it's miniscule. Adjusting that balance is just "job creation". I'm slightly more receptive to the tax vs pension argument, but I have yet to see any numbers on that.
JayDeeDubs
They estimate that more than 40% of Japan's populace will be over 65 by 2060, only slightly smaller than the proportion of working adults (it's 29% as of 2022), and there's a shortage of care workers in Japan now. And that's not a healthy tax base either, not when you also want to offer some other government services