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I doubt it will go anywhere, but Ceausescu tried that in Romania to disastrous effects. It failed to increase the population, but created a generation of kids raised in horrific orphanages.
1. Well, based on this map, it appears that Japan's abortion laws are actually rather restrictive (as I previously wrote here) and that abortion appears to only be allowed in Japan certain specific cases:
I doubt it will go anywhere, but Ceausescu tried that in Romania to disastrous effects. It failed to increase the population, but created a generation of kids raised in horrific orphanages.
That might at least partially be due to the fact that AFAIK, Ceausescu also banned contraception in addition to abortion.
Thus, I don't think that comparing Romania and Japan is such a good idea here.
As I said I have been thinking about this for a very long time. I can only hope that the world economy and population does reach a point where everyone that wants a job has one and the rest are living off their inherited and personal investments. In my opinion the end of Wage and Debt slavery should be the goal of every economy.
Our current economic domination by, on a world wide basis, is completely unsustainable because their interference with the economic basic of competition in a free and open market is not viable in the longer term. Eventually the market will weed out the colluders and speculators and reset at a sane level. It will cost the current crooks their fortunes and well as being a disaster for the rest of us. Fortunately the little guys will be able to stay alive while the crooks will be devastated.
Why do you guys keep saying a declining population will mean everyone will have a job? If only it were true, but automation of the workforce will happen in the meantime and there still won't be enough jobs left for humans.
That might at least partially be due to the fact that AFAIK, Ceausescu also banned contraception in addition to abortion.
Thus, I don't think that comparing Romania and Japan is such a good idea here.
Much closer to Japan, Mao banned abortion and contraception in China. Birthrates soared, and the famine that accompanied the Great Leap Forward killed even more people than it would have otherwise. The one child policy of Deng was a reaction against this.
Fortunately for Japan, it is not ruled by a Ceausescu or a Mao.
I'm pro-choice myself but it is true banning abortion would produce more population growth. Of course it would also have other effects, like increasing crime.
So where are all the people who said that japan closing it's doors to immigrants was a success?
Well they will point to the European experience with immigration to point out that Japan is doing the right thing. I personally don't think any of the Eurasian nation states are equipped to properly handle mass immigration. Until Japan can build the institutions and structures necessary to handle mass immigration, they really shouldn't be opening up.
Unlike the Eurasian nation-states, the United States and Canada can handle mass immigration better than most countries because it is surrounded by two oceans which means that only the best immigrants can come from abroad. For impoverished immigrants, Hispanic immigrants are also more or less Westerners (unless you think only those of White European racial descent can be Westerners) which means cultural integration is not really a problem for them although class based integration is difficult although it is difficult for all regardless of origin.
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