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   Arkana (arkana@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 09:29:59 JST Arkana
   People always go and say "Japan's birthrate!" but they're the only country that actually sees it as an issue and were trying to sound an alarm. Look at the fertility rate of other countries in comparison
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 09:29:58 JST waifu

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     @Arkana@poa.st Argentina so good it is number 1 three times just like the amount of world cups we have 💪

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 12:16:09 JST 翠星石

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     @Arkana >that actually sees it as an issue and were trying to sound an alarm
     It really isn't an issue if the population ends up halving over 100 years, as there's enough people in all those countries that it doesn't matter.
     
     The real issue the economies designed to only work if a line keeps going up exponentially.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 13:00:14 JST 翠星石

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     @Arkana >there are issues because some small rural towns were composed of mostly elderly people.
     That's is an issue, although not that bad as it will eventually sort itself out really.
     
     >Ideally that would mean cheaper real estate for people to build new houses there
     Outside of the cities, land and houses are dirt cheap (houses after 30 years get valued at $0 tax wise, so people often just abandon old houses) and there are many abandoned rural houses available at the cost of only a low yearly land tax.
     
     >unless it's an easily accessible area that might not happen
     Not many people are interested in rural areas only reachable by car as the vehicle loicencing system is pretty screwed.
     
     
     Maybe the demographic problem would be reduced if the glut of weebs were allowed in, but why would they do that?
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     Arkana (arkana@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 13:00:15 JST Arkana

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     @Suiseiseki In Japan there are issues because some small rural towns were composed of mostly elderly people. Ideally that would mean cheaper real estate for people to build new houses there, but unless it's an easily accessible area that might not happen