Raising the fertility rate to 2.07 without national changes to child-forward policies and without immigration (immigrants by and large have higher rates of childbirth) that leads to citizenship is impossible.
The US and the UK both show growth in the report's chart. Why? Immigration, immigration, immigration, immigration </Baller>.
FWIW, I think the ruling class is losing on this issue. People are not stupid. My neighbors have been nothing but welcoming, because they can do basic math--and the math is it is impossible to repopulate towns like this with children from the elderly who still live here or robbing peter to pay paul by poaching native Japanese of childbearing age from other areas.
@jamesrg Oh, btw, the pure centre and the impure periphery?
That shit isn't even Japanese. It's Neoconfucianism and was stolen from the Chinese.
Literally, Neo-Confucianist scholars (this would be the predecessors to where my masters studies started, so think 1600s and 1700s) basically said "Naw, China isn't the middle kingdom. Japan was the real middle kingdom the whole time!"
Japan has always been really, really, REALLY good about bringing stuff from the periphery into the centre and then claiming "ACKSHUALLY, it's ours!" All the way up to KFC and cake for Christmas.
Stolen from the British, via the Imperial Navy from its training exercises with the Royal Navy in the time around the Russo-Japanese war, who themselves stole it from India.
I honestly can't believe this album was 2022 and not... 2002. You know what you're getting here, it's Avril Lavigne. But, like, if that's what you want... There you go.
Oh yeah... Now my ears aren't bleeding. One advantage to not seriously listening to music, especially not on good equipment, until relatively recently, is that I haven't destroyed my ears.
Better than I don't remember. Equipment and quality matters, it's like a first listen.
Sk8ter Boi is the worst song. Nobody's Fool rap parts are a dishonorable mention.
Best songs: I'm With You, Tomorrow, Anything But Ordinary
Greater range of styles than Love Sux, and Love Sux comes off as "What did I expect? Not this shit again" and Let Go comes off as "What do I expect? Do I know?" That alone tells you the age/life stage of each... More about this...