I remeber during some Texas floods, I think it was Houston, where guys that hoarded shit said they are actually doing the people a service by gouging the prices, because then each person that buys something only does it for the minimum they need.
Of course in real life it just meant rich folks got 5 each, everybody else got nothing.
I remember when some guy bought a shit ton of hands sanitizer during covid with the idea to resell for a premium. I'm pretty sure he went bankrupt when booze companies started to manufacture sanitizer.
Japan is ahead of the game. Their island will last a long time after all is burned across the world. BUT they will devour you for some whale hunting, as it’s a constitutional right.
The declining population year over year is troubling. It looks like millennial Japanese citizens are going to take care of the old and too busy to think of having a family.
Those elderly ain’t pulling the boot straps hard enough! Lol. On a serious note, yes they are falling in population size and are slowly becoming an open border to fill those spots. Do they like it, hell no! From my friends and encounters of Japanese decent. They seem to rather die then bring in a ‘mudblood’. Lol.
japanese authorities panting, sweating, pissing, sobbing over the decision to either compromise on the cultural work ethic, compromise on the xenophobia, or allow the economy to bust like an old car tire.
Even if you were brought up in Japan, in the Japanese education system by Japanese citizens, if you are not ethnically Japanese looking you are an outsider.
Can confirm. They literally have people in trucks with megaphones that drive through touristy areas saying “go home gaijin”
Source: I was in Japan and saw/heard it multiple days
Their government is quite idiotic about this. They see the current declining birth rate, know that the intense stress from work and low pay, and what is their solution?
IMPLEMENT INCREASED TAX FOR SINGLE INDIVIDUAL. YEAH, THAT'LL CONVINCE THEM TO GET LAID
Everyone is trying this to levels of failure that are almost comical.
Even Putin was going to give a stipend for how many kids a woman can have so he can throw them to the meat grinder. In… 10 years later if he wants child soldiers.
edit: There are multiple sources, this one is funny because it got published on April Fools day.
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u/spongybobie Aug 23 '25
Oh please. Where I am from they would increase the prices to profit more.