"The challenge is that no single cause can be identified for the declining rate."
Sure you can: capitalism.
So true. Over and over again in the article it says that people can’t afford children and universities. It keeps saying the cost of living is up and then says there is no single cause people won’t have children.
And you can’t discount Japan’s absurdly toxic work culture.
Exacerbated by……. Capitalism.
Oh for sure, just saying there is another extra layer in the shit cake.
Feudal-inspired work culture, ultra-liberal capitalism, and xenophobia what a combo!
I agree with capitalism being a main cause. Additionally, many people also just don't want to raise a child. They don't want the added responsibilities and lack of freedom. Even people for whom capitalism works would rather enjoy their own life.
I just don't want to go through pregnancy, personally. Love kids but not enough to risk my life and permanent bodily changes. The being poor part is secondary
My mother had to have pelvic floor surgery after having three kids. Prior to that, she had to get her gallbladder removed shortly after my brother's birth. Pregnancy is extremely unappealing to me, and I don't think the long term effects of it are talked about enough.
Even people for whom capitalism works would rather enjoy their own life.
Is that why the ruling class has no problem having kids, usually with a bunch of different people?
I guess you still have a point. They typically have these children and then go off to live their rich lives instead of being a parent.
Was going to say climate change, but really the underlying cause is capitalism there too...
See guys. Pirky gets it.
Is this a Corky reference?
So brave. What an insightful comment. If you people stub your toe you will find a way to blame capitalism. Such a vacuous statement with no real world application.
If people dont have enough time to spend and raise their kids, dont have enough money to raise them without despair, if they dont have where to drop them during work hours, people cant have kids.
You really should think before doing a vacuous remark about anything.
"hey guys capitalism bad amirite? Haha"
Now what? Walk us to the next step, because 99% of comments here are just declarations with no actionable framework. Give me more and I'll listen, but if all you'll do is repeat the same thing ad nauseam without a roadmap then people will get bored and move on.
I can tell you're mad he's criticizing the system you've been indoctrinated to believe is flawless.
I don't think you're above the behavior of saying something is 'a vacuous statement with no real world application' just because you don't like what's being said.
At the end of the day it's just circlejerk with no real world discussion. All the same catchphrases diluted into meaningless statements with no intended outcome except for some feeling of moral superiority. DAE Les capitalism amirite guys? "Indoctrinated" "flawless system". Are you 14?
We got a live one, boys.
It is after all, the only thing you people know how to call out as a systemic issue in the world, so it might as well be solely responsible for every gripe you have I suppose huh.
Let's read the article and look the causes:
"With the rising cost of living, I don't think people feel they can afford to, or comfortably say they want to, have children," said 23-year-old Anna Tanaka.
In 2020, women got married for the first time at an average age of 29.4, or 3.9 years later than in 1985, government data shows.
As people have fewer children, they are able to spend more on each child than families have in the past. That drives up the average cost of raising a child for the broader population
Tuition at private universities jumped fivefold between 1975 and 2021, and by 19 times at public universities, data shows.
These are all symptoms of capitalism. Alienation and seeking "class mobility" leads to people getting married later. The cost of living is a capitalist construct, and it rises primarily due to seeking profit. Colleges are also seeking to profit, and have successfully convinced people that taking debt early in life is good for individuals going into the labor pool. The debt also increases alienation and people who would have children are suddenly priced out of it due to education debt.
It's hilarious to me that you linked this as somehow a result of capitalism
In 2020, women got married for the first time at an average age of 29.4, or 3.9 years later than in 1985, government data shows.
As people have fewer children, they are able to spend more on each child than families have in the past. That drives up the average cost of raising a child for the broader population
I mean the whole post is silly but this part especially is just chef's kiss as a response to the poster above.
I explained how they were symptoms of capitalism. If you can't understand it, then maybe you need a deeper understanding of the topic. How doesn't it make sense?
Having fewer children means you spend more on the fewer children, driving up average cost of raising children
We have one President indicted 91 times so on average Presidents are indicted twice because we've had 46 of them.
This is just how math works, and has nothing to do with any economic system
"average cost" can vary in meaning on this topic. I read it as "fewer people are buying goods necessary for children, leading to raised prices and a higher average cost of raising children". Considering studies done on the cost of raising children, this is how I interpreted the quote. But your interpretation is also technically correct, and I won't fault you for reading something differently than I did.
That's the incorrect way to read this. Rather, people are spending more on their children, and people without children are seeing average cost of raising children.
Effectively, the standard of living for children is going up and people who feel they cannot hit that standard of living are (in Japan's case especially) opting not to have them.
I assure you that poor people are still having children that survive.
"It's all about the money."
Funny how it's always you people pretending like we have our heads in the clouds, when you don't understand this simple fact of life yet.
It's okay, maybe when you'll older you'll get it.
Let's be real though. You do understand it but you want things to stay how they are. You're afraid to come out and say it and I don't hold you above that behavior.
There's a term for people like you, useful something. I can't remember it.
Capitalism is surely partly to blame but it's laughable to identify it as the sole cause.
I'll never understand statements like these. Capitalism is the #1 reason there's a profit incentive for any given thing to be horrible.
Workers owning a company would also have a profit incentive because the workers would like to make more money.
Workers owning their own company would incentivize creating stable growth, since the workers aren't going to willfully destroy the company they all have a stake in.
Whereas now we have unstable growth because the C suites, executives and shareholders milk companies dry and then toss them. They have no concerns about whether the bottom rung guys are sustainable.
You're going to need to define "stable" and "unstable" growth here.
So it was because of capitalism that the communist revolution killed millions of people around the world.
Uh, the more you know....
I think people define capitalism vastly differently. To some capitalism is simply the ability to trade goods for personal profit, which exists in almost every society. To others its the dictionary definition of an economic and political system.
What you're missing is that the first group there is populated by idiots.
That's unfair, you made a valid point, but I'm going to make this goalposts flexible for others
You, just now
What? I don't even have a stake in this debate. I am just pointing out how often I notice that two people seem to be discussing entirely different ideas.
Actually, yeah. Trade embargos starved those countries and the CIA killed the few real communists who managed to garner any influence, eliminating any real movements towards a marxist ideal
Ah yes, it wasn't the expropriation and execution/imprisonment of competent farmers and the general failures of central planning, it's all about them trade embargos.
Sure, focus on half of what I said rather than actually read the whole thing
Sure, go one and tell us who were the illuminated people touched by the grace of God that were just too powerful to wander around the Earth in the view of the CIA.
If it wasn't for those pesky americans, the World would be the perfect kumbaya by now.
Che Geuvara, Salvador Allende, Jacobo Arbenz, Fidel Castro, Martin Luther King Jr (via FBI COINTELPRO, proven in a civil lawsuit) are a few names. Operation Condor, the Vietnam war, the Korean War, the Palmer Raids, and many more examples exist of violent oppression of communists by the US government
As for the people I don't know Salvador Allende nor Jacobo Arbenz, but Fidel and Che were two bloodthirsty armsmen that just picked up whatever ideology fitted at the time. There is a reason why since then until now people try to escape from Cuba into the US. Also, I believe the US only really took an interest in them when they accepted the Soviet nukes.
As for Martin Luther King Jr, he was definitly persecuted, but was it because he was a communist? I'm not sure of that.
Do you really want to use the Korean war as an example of the US oppressing communists? Really? You literaly just have to compare how both sides ended up.
You clearly don't know much about history.
Che's death was mourned across the world. That's not something you can say about most bloodthirsty dictators. He was a revolutionary that cared deeply about the poor, downtrodden, and oppressed. When he was a doctor, he saw the effects of capitalism in his patients, which radicalized him because he felt that the only true way to help people was to overthrow the systems of oppression. The US took interest in them because they were communists, plain and simple. The anti-communist stance of the US government dictated all of the foreign affairs of the cold war. It's why Arbenz and Allende were overthrown. Kissinger stated this on overthrowing Allende:
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
He's saying that the dictatorship of capitalists can never be questioned, and it's unacceptable for anyone to try a system other than capitalism, even if it's done peacefully and in a fair democratic election.
Do you know why MLK was in Memphis when he was killed? He was there in solidarity with sanitation workers that were on strike. Just like with communism abroad, socialists within the country were explicitly targeted. MLK, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Kwume Ture, Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, and many more were targeted because of their leftist, socialist, revolutionary attitudes.
Shows what you know about the precursor and initial aftermath to the Korean war. North Korea was prosperous and had enough surplus food to send mutual aid to South Korea after the ceasefire, which was experiencing a famine. Several factors have led to the state being a dictatorship that I will not defend or support, however, in case you want me to accuse me of supporting their many crimes against humanity.
I don't know where you people get this concept. Humans are the issue, not capitalism. There's literally no functioning system of trade without capitalism. It's just human nature. We are greedy and we want more than others so that we feel secure in our own future. It's not fucking rocket scientist, and it's not fucking capitalism.
Do you really Envision a world where everyone works equally and gets paid equally and nobody makes extra profit but somehow people are happy? That doesn't sound like any of the humans I've ever known, even the nice ones. You need to be a little bit more realistic and get your childish ass out of the playground.
We couldn't even get people to wear masks to not kill each other and you're over here holding your breath for agapelandia lmao
You can't make long ass statements like this witbout even reading the reasons cited in the article through government data.
The cost of living is a capitalist concept.
the cost of living is a capitalist concept
No, it isn't. Lol
There are fundamental costs to human survival and those costs must be borne out somewhere. Hunter/gatherers also had a cost of living.
Animals foraging resources in nature is capitalism mannnnn
The things people choose to believe never cease to amaze me.
The rising disparity in wealth is a result of capitalism.
The cost of living is so high because we're funneling as much money as possible to as few people as possible.
Every day it gets worse, and this is by design.
Disparity in wealth does not impact cost of living. That's nonsensical.
Wow. I'm sorry you believe that.
Either you're trolling or woefully ignorant about the world around you. Either way, I can't communicate with people like you.
You need more life experience.
Goodbye.
There are no casual factors between wealth disparity and cost of living, and if anything an extreme enough wealth disparity lowers cost of living - serfs had a very low cost of living.
Not sure why you felt the need to insult me, but I assure you I need no further life experience to recall historical facts
It’s just human nature. We are greedy and we want more than others so that we feel secure in our own future.
you're projecting your own terrible views here, not stating universal fact
There are innumerable functioning systems of trade without capitalism. My point is capitalism is intrinsically violent and wasteful. War is profit. But there ARE mutualist, communalist, and voluntary approaches to labor as well just to name a few.
I also have to point out that the gold standard in the case of USD is effectively maintained by a obscenely expansive worldwide military presence which can't be a good thing long term and how about that ongoing pandemic we don't talk about? How long can we as species get away with ignoring the real, big, systemic problems? Capitalism is NOT fixing them, and won't.
Regardless you're real mistaken, I don't envision some perfect world, dont accuse me of naivety- I'm a tired, jaded anarchist, not a communist. Anyways I am truly sorry you've only ever known assholes.. I'm not holding my breath for anything just speaking my mind, and maybe I change someone's, at least I tried
The gold standard lmao really?
Frankly it’s laughable to assert there is a sole cause in the first place when there’s a myriad of different people here with a myriad of their own personal factors at play.
"The challenge is that no single cause can be identified for the declining rate." Sure you can: capitalism.
So true. Over and over again in the article it says that people can’t afford children and universities. It keeps saying the cost of living is up and then says there is no single cause people won’t have children.
And you can’t discount Japan’s absurdly toxic work culture.
Exacerbated by……. Capitalism.
Oh for sure, just saying there is another extra layer in the shit cake.
Feudal-inspired work culture, ultra-liberal capitalism, and xenophobia what a combo!
I agree with capitalism being a main cause. Additionally, many people also just don't want to raise a child. They don't want the added responsibilities and lack of freedom. Even people for whom capitalism works would rather enjoy their own life.
I just don't want to go through pregnancy, personally. Love kids but not enough to risk my life and permanent bodily changes. The being poor part is secondary
My mother had to have pelvic floor surgery after having three kids. Prior to that, she had to get her gallbladder removed shortly after my brother's birth. Pregnancy is extremely unappealing to me, and I don't think the long term effects of it are talked about enough.
Is that why the ruling class has no problem having kids, usually with a bunch of different people?
I guess you still have a point. They typically have these children and then go off to live their rich lives instead of being a parent.
Was going to say climate change, but really the underlying cause is capitalism there too...
See guys. Pirky gets it.
Is this a Corky reference?
So brave. What an insightful comment. If you people stub your toe you will find a way to blame capitalism. Such a vacuous statement with no real world application.
If people dont have enough time to spend and raise their kids, dont have enough money to raise them without despair, if they dont have where to drop them during work hours, people cant have kids.
You really should think before doing a vacuous remark about anything.
"hey guys capitalism bad amirite? Haha"
Now what? Walk us to the next step, because 99% of comments here are just declarations with no actionable framework. Give me more and I'll listen, but if all you'll do is repeat the same thing ad nauseam without a roadmap then people will get bored and move on.
I can tell you're mad he's criticizing the system you've been indoctrinated to believe is flawless.
I don't think you're above the behavior of saying something is 'a vacuous statement with no real world application' just because you don't like what's being said.
At the end of the day it's just circlejerk with no real world discussion. All the same catchphrases diluted into meaningless statements with no intended outcome except for some feeling of moral superiority. DAE Les capitalism amirite guys? "Indoctrinated" "flawless system". Are you 14?
We got a live one, boys.
It is after all, the only thing you people know how to call out as a systemic issue in the world, so it might as well be solely responsible for every gripe you have I suppose huh.
Let's read the article and look the causes:
These are all symptoms of capitalism. Alienation and seeking "class mobility" leads to people getting married later. The cost of living is a capitalist construct, and it rises primarily due to seeking profit. Colleges are also seeking to profit, and have successfully convinced people that taking debt early in life is good for individuals going into the labor pool. The debt also increases alienation and people who would have children are suddenly priced out of it due to education debt.
It's hilarious to me that you linked this as somehow a result of capitalism
I mean the whole post is silly but this part especially is just chef's kiss as a response to the poster above.
I explained how they were symptoms of capitalism. If you can't understand it, then maybe you need a deeper understanding of the topic. How doesn't it make sense?
Having fewer children means you spend more on the fewer children, driving up average cost of raising children
We have one President indicted 91 times so on average Presidents are indicted twice because we've had 46 of them.
This is just how math works, and has nothing to do with any economic system
"average cost" can vary in meaning on this topic. I read it as "fewer people are buying goods necessary for children, leading to raised prices and a higher average cost of raising children". Considering studies done on the cost of raising children, this is how I interpreted the quote. But your interpretation is also technically correct, and I won't fault you for reading something differently than I did.
That's the incorrect way to read this. Rather, people are spending more on their children, and people without children are seeing average cost of raising children.
Effectively, the standard of living for children is going up and people who feel they cannot hit that standard of living are (in Japan's case especially) opting not to have them.
I assure you that poor people are still having children that survive.
"It's all about the money."
Funny how it's always you people pretending like we have our heads in the clouds, when you don't understand this simple fact of life yet.
It's okay, maybe when you'll older you'll get it.
Let's be real though. You do understand it but you want things to stay how they are. You're afraid to come out and say it and I don't hold you above that behavior.
There's a term for people like you, useful something. I can't remember it.
Capitalism is surely partly to blame but it's laughable to identify it as the sole cause.
I'll never understand statements like these. Capitalism is the #1 reason there's a profit incentive for any given thing to be horrible.
Workers owning a company would also have a profit incentive because the workers would like to make more money.
Workers owning their own company would incentivize creating stable growth, since the workers aren't going to willfully destroy the company they all have a stake in.
Whereas now we have unstable growth because the C suites, executives and shareholders milk companies dry and then toss them. They have no concerns about whether the bottom rung guys are sustainable.
You're going to need to define "stable" and "unstable" growth here.
So it was because of capitalism that the communist revolution killed millions of people around the world.
Uh, the more you know....
I think people define capitalism vastly differently. To some capitalism is simply the ability to trade goods for personal profit, which exists in almost every society. To others its the dictionary definition of an economic and political system.
What you're missing is that the first group there is populated by idiots.
You, just now
What? I don't even have a stake in this debate. I am just pointing out how often I notice that two people seem to be discussing entirely different ideas.
Actually, yeah. Trade embargos starved those countries and the CIA killed the few real communists who managed to garner any influence, eliminating any real movements towards a marxist ideal
Ah yes, it wasn't the expropriation and execution/imprisonment of competent farmers and the general failures of central planning, it's all about them trade embargos.
Sure, focus on half of what I said rather than actually read the whole thing
Sure, go one and tell us who were the illuminated people touched by the grace of God that were just too powerful to wander around the Earth in the view of the CIA.
If it wasn't for those pesky americans, the World would be the perfect kumbaya by now.
Che Geuvara, Salvador Allende, Jacobo Arbenz, Fidel Castro, Martin Luther King Jr (via FBI COINTELPRO, proven in a civil lawsuit) are a few names. Operation Condor, the Vietnam war, the Korean War, the Palmer Raids, and many more examples exist of violent oppression of communists by the US government
As for the people I don't know Salvador Allende nor Jacobo Arbenz, but Fidel and Che were two bloodthirsty armsmen that just picked up whatever ideology fitted at the time. There is a reason why since then until now people try to escape from Cuba into the US. Also, I believe the US only really took an interest in them when they accepted the Soviet nukes.
As for Martin Luther King Jr, he was definitly persecuted, but was it because he was a communist? I'm not sure of that.
Do you really want to use the Korean war as an example of the US oppressing communists? Really? You literaly just have to compare how both sides ended up.
You clearly don't know much about history.
Che's death was mourned across the world. That's not something you can say about most bloodthirsty dictators. He was a revolutionary that cared deeply about the poor, downtrodden, and oppressed. When he was a doctor, he saw the effects of capitalism in his patients, which radicalized him because he felt that the only true way to help people was to overthrow the systems of oppression. The US took interest in them because they were communists, plain and simple. The anti-communist stance of the US government dictated all of the foreign affairs of the cold war. It's why Arbenz and Allende were overthrown. Kissinger stated this on overthrowing Allende:
He's saying that the dictatorship of capitalists can never be questioned, and it's unacceptable for anyone to try a system other than capitalism, even if it's done peacefully and in a fair democratic election.
Do you know why MLK was in Memphis when he was killed? He was there in solidarity with sanitation workers that were on strike. Just like with communism abroad, socialists within the country were explicitly targeted. MLK, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Kwume Ture, Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, and many more were targeted because of their leftist, socialist, revolutionary attitudes.
Shows what you know about the precursor and initial aftermath to the Korean war. North Korea was prosperous and had enough surplus food to send mutual aid to South Korea after the ceasefire, which was experiencing a famine. Several factors have led to the state being a dictatorship that I will not defend or support, however, in case you want me to accuse me of supporting their many crimes against humanity.
I don't know where you people get this concept. Humans are the issue, not capitalism. There's literally no functioning system of trade without capitalism. It's just human nature. We are greedy and we want more than others so that we feel secure in our own future. It's not fucking rocket scientist, and it's not fucking capitalism.
Do you really Envision a world where everyone works equally and gets paid equally and nobody makes extra profit but somehow people are happy? That doesn't sound like any of the humans I've ever known, even the nice ones. You need to be a little bit more realistic and get your childish ass out of the playground.
We couldn't even get people to wear masks to not kill each other and you're over here holding your breath for agapelandia lmao
Did you read the article?
https://lemmy.world/comment/2996502
You can't make long ass statements like this witbout even reading the reasons cited in the article through government data.
The cost of living is a capitalist concept.
No, it isn't. Lol
There are fundamental costs to human survival and those costs must be borne out somewhere. Hunter/gatherers also had a cost of living.
Animals foraging resources in nature is capitalism mannnnn
The things people choose to believe never cease to amaze me.
The rising disparity in wealth is a result of capitalism.
The cost of living is so high because we're funneling as much money as possible to as few people as possible.
Every day it gets worse, and this is by design.
Disparity in wealth does not impact cost of living. That's nonsensical.
Wow. I'm sorry you believe that.
Either you're trolling or woefully ignorant about the world around you. Either way, I can't communicate with people like you.
You need more life experience.
Goodbye.
There are no casual factors between wealth disparity and cost of living, and if anything an extreme enough wealth disparity lowers cost of living - serfs had a very low cost of living.
Not sure why you felt the need to insult me, but I assure you I need no further life experience to recall historical facts
you're projecting your own terrible views here, not stating universal fact
fucking lol
https://theconversation.com/humans-arent-inherently-selfish-were-actually-hardwired-to-work-together-144145
https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/human-nature-and-social-change/
There are innumerable functioning systems of trade without capitalism. My point is capitalism is intrinsically violent and wasteful. War is profit. But there ARE mutualist, communalist, and voluntary approaches to labor as well just to name a few. I also have to point out that the gold standard in the case of USD is effectively maintained by a obscenely expansive worldwide military presence which can't be a good thing long term and how about that ongoing pandemic we don't talk about? How long can we as species get away with ignoring the real, big, systemic problems? Capitalism is NOT fixing them, and won't. Regardless you're real mistaken, I don't envision some perfect world, dont accuse me of naivety- I'm a tired, jaded anarchist, not a communist. Anyways I am truly sorry you've only ever known assholes.. I'm not holding my breath for anything just speaking my mind, and maybe I change someone's, at least I tried
The gold standard lmao really?
Frankly it’s laughable to assert there is a sole cause in the first place when there’s a myriad of different people here with a myriad of their own personal factors at play.
"It's all about the money."
You'll understand when you're older.