The economist Takashi Kadokura said on a Yahoo Japan news blog that local government efforts to promote marriage were not working and marriages were not increasing because of the growing number of non-regular workers who found it financially difficult to start a family.
They long for that sweet 1800 again, but there is no rural population to infinitely replace workers worked to death anymore.
I genuinely think USs game plan is to get the conditions bad enough that people are working factories and farms so they can compete with the rest of the world still
Or/also forever use illegal immigrants to replace the disillusioned citizens in this enshittification cycle
Parenti talked about this decades ago, the dream for the bourgeoisie is roll the calendar back to around 1900.
Great minds think alike or parenti stole it fron me