Japan: Early career setbacks reduce marriage and birth rates – April 2024

While ever CEO and CFO, especially Elon Musk, is pushing a slow to hire economy where a lot of Gen Z are having harder and harder time finding jobs. This ain’t a good idea if you wanna boost birth rates, or even has a future. It turns out increasing the amount of hardship early in a person’s career decreases their ability start familes, let alone kids.

Japan tried to cut employment protections and let employers classify more workers as contractors in the 80s, turns out it ended up costing Japan in the long run by destroying these guys’ economic futures

Repost to include the month and year part of rule 13 and I thought it’s relevent considering the folks worrying about birthrates and the future are often the same ones lowering them