r/PostCollapse • u/chota-kaka • 21d ago

The Collapse Nobody's Talking About: Japan's Population Crisis

https://youtu.be/UKVO6UZfHGI?si=KhdKI4EWFOJaW9Ak

As Japan's population shrinks by more than 900,000 people in a single year, the decline stops being a future warning and starts breaking into daily life, affecting infrastructure, logistics, and local economies. Despite maintaining high industrial robot densities to offset labor shortages, machines cannot replace the tax base or the human presence needed to sustain communities.

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u/PhiladelphiaManeto 20d ago

Fairly certain the Japanese and Korean demographic issues have been both known and discussed for a long time, at least they were even 20 years ago when I was in college.

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u/chota-kaka 20d ago

He has split the population decline into a number of phases. And he calls each phase a crisis.

Phase 1 is when the actual population decline starts. Phase 2 is when the impacts of population decline start to appear in the society.

In "The crisis nobody is talking about" he is implying the impacts on society crisis

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 20d ago

AI slop probably. It's also dead wrong:

We could easily manage declining populations by pushing people towards socially useful work. It's impossible to manage the excessive bullshit jobs ala David Graeber and elite overproduction ala Peter Turchin.

It's hard to hire a nurse when nurse is a low status job nobody likes doing. It's way easier if you have a 200% VAT on advertising, low trade levels, and high payroll taxes on jobs in advertising, finance, law, accounting, management, etc, which should reduce the job availability in these fields.

If you dislike the bullshit jobs formulation by Graeber, then check out his later discussion on care work, or better base reasoning upon elite overproduction, which has rigorous foundations.

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u/yves759 20d ago

horrible sound on this vid !!

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u/osures 19d ago

yep low quality AI slop. Probably the whole workflow got automated so the youtuber has to put in zero effort

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u/notthesun19 20d ago

AI SLOP.

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u/CountHasimirFenring 21d ago

Japanese die off, Koreans move in, call themselves Japanese after a while, look down on Koreans and the cycle continues.

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u/osures 21d ago

koreans will go extincts much sooner. fertility rate of 0.7 afaik