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Speaking as a parent: not having kids is highly rational because kids are an enormous time and money and energy sink. It's like having a second job that you carry around with you all the time, except worse because instead of paying you money the job actually just costs you money instead. Even generous social democracies like in Scandinavia don't even come close with their benefits to making parents at parity with childless people. If you like free time and more spending money and more independence and more fun, then having kids is an awful decision. You can probably only get people in highly developed countries to have more kids by making it look equivalently as good as not having kids, which would require MASSIVE redistributive policies to transfer money to parents to account for the costs of childrearing. Cicero fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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That's true, it seems to be a general problem among highly developed countries. Once the cultural/religious pressure to have kids is gone (or at least highly alleviated) it's harder to justify, especially since expectations for parents are higher than ever*. * Fun fact: men in the US spend more time taking care of their kids now than they did decades ago. That's not surprising, but what is is that so do women, even though they also work more outside the home now and have fewer kids (which means the per-kid time has to be WAY up).
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I'm not a Japanese expert, but as an American with a Japanese mom who's been to Japan several times and has read a bunch about Japan/has average weeb knowledge (including the requisite couple semesters of college Japanese classes), and who currently lives in Germany, Japan definitely seems more insular and xenophobic than Germany to me.
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Aug 27, 2017 18:03
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icantfindaname posted:the idea that American office culture is some post-sexist utopia is also sort of weird and hilarious
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Nov 12, 2017 12:13
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I went to Zoorasia in Yokohama and it seemed fine to me. Very crowded (human-wise), but fine. I don't remember being appalled by the animal enclosures.
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If children's lives are supposed to be so precious, why does one of the major American parties hate CHIP? Every country is full of hypocrisy and stupid, that's why.
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Also there was no region- or world-wide network of Glorious Nippon Empire fanatics funneling in money and troops to back an insurgency.
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I'm not sure myself but I did see this related thread in /r/japanlife the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/8de4xn/experiences_with_sexual_harassment_from_strangers
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Weatherman posted:I've been to Hong Kong twice in the past two years. Hope the HK thread is ready for my hot takes on exactly what's causing the problems their country is facing. Bonus "speaking from If the problems are obvious, you don't need some deep lived experiences to notice.
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GLORIOUS NIPPON
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For comparison, women in Congress are House - 28%, Senate - 24%. Bundestag is 35%, same number for the House of Commons.
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stephenthinkpad posted:However I just want to point out there aren't many JPRG around in the last 2 console cycles.
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Mar 28, 2023 20:03
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Well, obviously the overwhelming majority of JRPG's have come from Japan. It's only somewhat recently that you've started to see prominent western examples of JRPG's from the indie scene, like Undertale, Lisa, Cosmic Star Heroine, CrossCode, Chained Echoes, etc.
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AlternateNu posted:There's a youtube video that keeps popping up on my feed I've yet to watch, but the title is something like "Shinzo Abe was assassinate by a homemade shotgun, and now everyone hates him" which is hilariously on-the-nose. https://youtu.be/wFn6gWYMDpo
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