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1. shoobiedoo · 1789687401 · focus · HN ↗

   This article calls it a "quiet emergency" but even as a foreigner living in Japan there are alarm bells everywhere. And the government buying 150 F35's is just a slap in the face when there's a massive chunk of the population that is, very quickly, going to need extra care.

   I looked into becoming a care aid myself as I'm tired of office culture in Japan and have some experience in that field. I was shocked to see that they start at less than 10USD, and working your way up takes years, decades even.

   Continuing to kick this can down the road is going to be an absolute disaster.

   1. rightnutwingjob · 1789689669 · focus · HN ↗

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      1. PostOnce · 1789692682 · focus · HN ↗

         These people are over 100, and have been paying tax to the Japanese state since before world war 2. They lived through world war 2, and they rebuilt japan afterwards.

         You're proposing to tell them they haven't "done enough", saved enough, paid enough tax, worked enough, sacrificed enough. You're assuming they all have kids to care for them.

         20-something billion dollars can pay for a lot of medicine and care that F-35s can't deliver.

         Defence is necessary to protect the people. But so is everything else. Medicine, food, affordable housing, education...

         If the state wants tons of money and sacrifice, then what is the point of protecting it if it provides nothing in return?

         This extends to everyone else in the developed world: if we're fucked anyway, why bother doing all this stuff the government wants? To protect the assets and incomes of the rich? So we can give all our life and labor to the lords and landlords?

         I'm not buying it, and I doubt the centenarians are either.

         1. totetsu · 1789694690 · focus · HN ↗

            Their kids are in the 70s and 80s too

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