Local Japanese leaders call for more foreign immigrant workers - Kotaku In Action 2

Local Japanese leaders call for more foreign immigrant workers (www.sankakucomplex.com)

posted 2 years ago by evilplushie 2 years ago by evilplushie +52 / -0

86% Local Government Leaders: 'We Need Gaijin or We'll Go Extinct!'

Local government leaders across Japan recently partook in a survey on population decline, on which 86% responded that there is a need to promote the acceptance of gaijin for human resources due to serious labor shortages in agriculture, forestry, and fishe...

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– newdaynewname 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

I'm not sure how to fix it, but we first need to diagnose the problem.

Child labor, you just said that children are a burden when they used to be an asset. Parents could rent out their children to a factory for the price of food and a pod to sleep in.

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– Xachariah 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Mandatory education is also a huge depressor. What's the point in having kids if you just act as a place that feeds them, keeps them overnight, and gets them ready for the real authority in the kids' lives, which is the government?

It turns out that when you take away people's authority (and charge them for the privilege), they become less invested in the product and less likely to have more of that product.

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