Japan’s demographic crisis is deepening faster than expected, with the number of births this year on track to fall below even the government’s most pessimistic projections. According to analysis reported...

Japan’s demographic crisis is deepening faster than expected, with the number of births this year on track to fall below even the government’s most pessimistic projections.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251228215131/https://slguardian.org/japans-birth-rate-set-to-break-even-the-bleakest-forecasts/

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  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Another stupid article assuming that a population reduction is a bad thing.

    No, no, of course, just keep increasing the human population until it crashes. Then it’ll be an actual problem.

    The numbers look bad because increasing population increases the GDP, and GDP has become the archetypal example of what happens when you turn a metric into a goal.