First of all? The first thing is to raise children to prevent them from getting old. was a way of preventing the elderly from living without support and being displaced when productivity was low in China's agricultural society. And the use of? The value system of "many children, many blessings" has been established. The value system of tribute established a kind of old age system. Nowadays, some old people in our countryside are still y rooted in this traditional concept.
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Is it true that the Japanese elderly have an enviable old age?
It can be said with certainty that the old people's life in Japan is definitely better than that in developing countries. The reason is very simple, because Japan is a developed and capitalized country, and its welfare system is definitely better than ours.
Of course, due to the difference in values, in the eyes of some Chinese, the Japanese elderly's old age is not worth envying. They think that in Japan, where human feelings are cold and indifferent, it is difficult for the Japanese elderly to be taken care of by their children, and that although the material conditions are better than ours, the Japanese elderly are lonely and isolated.
But is this really the reality?
First of all, the Japanese retirement system is such that in Japan old people can retire at the age of 60, but their pensions can only be collected at the age of 65. Since Japan's average age has reached 47, literally entering an aging society, the Japanese government certainly wants Japanese old people who have reached retirement age to continue working to make up for the labor shortage in society. So it's not unusual for Japanese people in their 70s to still be working under voluntary circumstances.
This reality of the Japanese elderly living to work until they die is incomprehensible to many Chinese, who generally subjectively believe it is caused by social indifference and ungrateful children.
But the fact that the Japanese elderly people's behavior is entirely their self-reliance, self-improvement of the character of the decision. In the eyes of the Japanese elderly, as long as they can still walk, they will never go to their children's home to bathe or eat, because the Japanese old people think that this is an insult to their own personality.
Of course,
Because the Japanese old people voluntarily postpone the age of retirement, they then receive a pension that is absolutely generous, and is fully able to pay for all the expenses after the mobility problems.
This is the real situation of the Japanese elderly in their old age.
And then there is the fact that the retirement benefit system in Japan is exactly the same for both rural and urban elderly. This is because the Japanese government's national pension system guarantees all of this, and of course if Japanese people want to get more pension after retirement, then they can pay more into their retirement security when they are young.
(Our country's old people in the countryside)
Here I'll mention in passing, our country's pension system. In our country, if you live in the city and are included in the system of the pension system, then when you retire at the age of 60, you are completely happy old people who dance in the square and have nothing to do with the young people to squeeze the bus.
But what about our old people living in the countryside? These honest people who have been farming all their lives and don't know that growing food is losing money. After their children have gone out to work, they are relying entirely on their already old and sickly bodies to support and guard their homes, which no longer have much hope.
But I also want to mention here that as our country is getting richer and stronger, the old people in the countryside have been able to receive more than a hundred pensions a month. So it is only when the country is rich and strong that the society will be fair and the people will be happy.