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Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

how many economies have to collapse before governments realize capitalism is broken

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Since most governments are filled with people who have way more money than they can spend in a lifetime probably never.

I will never understand why people who live in poverty or barely get by look at some rich CEO/billionaire whatever moneybags person go "yeah this person will probably understand my hardships and make it right, let's make him governor or president".

A lot of politicians are completely out of touch and as long as they're doing well everyone must be doing well (or they simply don't care).

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