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For Japan, shrinking population will mean an aging population with no one to care for them.


Not if we have robots and AI.


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> A people can recover from that, though

Absolutely. They’ll just go through a period of a bunch of social workers discovering a new corpse every three days. Whole towns dying because there is nobody to maintain the public services. The people will get exactly what they were asking for, and they’ll die for it.


>and they’ll die for it

I've yet to meet people immune from the inevitability of death, via the immigration policies of their country.

What exactly was your argument here? Because I'm not seeing the downside in what you wrote.



A few generations ago they were enslaving people [0]. This is what racism can lead to. Maintaining their heritage, their way of life, some would say.

Hopefully their population decline doesn't hit them too hard. But that, and their lack natural of resources, could lead to bad things. Fascists and their ilk thrive in such situations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Japan#World_War_II


If you use a credit card, but can’t pay it immediately then you pay interest. It’s a trap the less wealthy fall into.


Spending money on don’t have with no financial repercussions is known as the elusive “infinity money hack”. Which clearly does not exist.

Of course there’s going to be a a cost to spending beyond your means.


Yes that is true, and what I said is also true.


Or you could simply not pay on the credit card, and avoid the trap?


The point is they make a lot of their money from people who don't, paying 20% APR -- the 'whales' in this consumer industry aren't the richest people, unlike retail, gaming, travel, etc.


Not everyone always has the money not to.


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