Saw a video a year or two ago about a Japanese village where they just had their first birth in over a decade. Half the village was retired and most of the rest was past middle age. And not a single other kid. I think the greatest victims of the birth rate crisis are the kids who are actually getting born. Must suck growing up and there are no neighbor’s kid and everyone is old. You think boomers are insufferable now? Imagine when that age range is over half the population. Imagine what politics are gonna be like when the median age is 55. Gonna suck ass.
That’s the consequence of urbanization though. Only old people or those who have no other choice stay in the villages. It happens in many other countries without such extreme populations problems as Japan, so it’s not necessarily correlated.
That’s absolutely true. But aging society is gonna make communities like this more common. Soon enough most or all communities may be like this, urban and rural alike.
When I was a child I was surrounded by cousins. Evert weekend we Played games, watched godzilla, beaches, tea parties etc. Already see it with my sister (she years younger than me) her whole upbringing was so different. the only kids she interacted with with from the babysitter and school.
Saw a video a year or two ago about a Japanese village where they just had their first birth in over a decade. Half the village was retired and most of the rest was past middle age. And not a single other kid. I think the greatest victims of the birth rate crisis are the kids who are actually getting born. Must suck growing up and there are no neighbor’s kid and everyone is old. You think boomers are insufferable now? Imagine when that age range is over half the population. Imagine what politics are gonna be like when the median age is 55. Gonna suck ass.
I guess that’s the reason why you can still see diskettes and fax machines in use around.
That’s the consequence of urbanization though. Only old people or those who have no other choice stay in the villages. It happens in many other countries without such extreme populations problems as Japan, so it’s not necessarily correlated.
That’s absolutely true. But aging society is gonna make communities like this more common. Soon enough most or all communities may be like this, urban and rural alike.
When I was a child I was surrounded by cousins. Evert weekend we Played games, watched godzilla, beaches, tea parties etc. Already see it with my sister (she years younger than me) her whole upbringing was so different. the only kids she interacted with with from the babysitter and school.