Netizens who have been to Japan will have noticed that many gray-haired old people can often be seen in Japanese society still working to earn money. The easiest to see are cab drivers. Most of the drivers who drive cabs in Japan are over 50 or 60 years old. Many elderly people in Japan will insist on working until they are over 80 years old, and some of them will even engage in some labor that requires physical strength.
Once traveled to Japan, casually walked into a very Japanese characteristics of the street restaurant, inadvertently found that the dishwasher in the restaurant is actually a gray-haired and a little bit hunchback of the old lady. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on a new product or service, and you'll be able to get a good deal on a new one.
Why do many Japanese old people keep working? It's not that they don't want to live a comfortable life in their old age, but it's because the aging of the population in Japanese society has become very serious. The state can't afford to pay for the retirement of so many old people, and has shifted some of the responsibility for old age to individuals. And because there are fewer and fewer young people in Japan, there is a serious shortage of young laborers, and many small stores have to hire some old people to labor.
Today's China, has also begun to enter the age of population aging, the birth rate declined year after year at the same time, the one-child policy before the implementation of the peak of the birth rate of the population born before, began to enter the ranks of the elderly. China's demographic dividend has completely disappeared. Thinking about the lives of Japanese elderly people now could be the future of our generation's old age. The kind of early retirement of our parents' generation, playing tai chi in the morning and dancing in the square at night in the old age, may not continue in our generation.
In order to effectively increase the birth rate of the population, the country fully opened the two-child policy. But after the full liberalization of the second child, the birth rate did not have a sudden increase as people expected. Therefore, after the opening of the two-child policy, there have been rumors of the opening of the third child in the society. Since the opening of the second child did not even provide a significant relief to the rapid decline in the birth rate, will the opening of the third child be useful?
Nowadays, many young couples don't even want to have a child, so will opening up the policy of having three children impress them and make them suddenly want a child? In fact, there are many reasons why the birth rate is now persistently low.
Young couples who don't want children, excluding those who can't have children because of physiological reasons, and others who can have normal children but artificially refuse to have children, are roughly categorized into two types: those who don't have the money and those who don't have the time.
As an ordinary "working" couple, every month is being chased by the rent, living expenses, saving a little bit of money, may be because of which a small illness, or the New Year to go back to their hometowns, you have to start from scratch again. The situation is a little better, pay a down payment to buy a house, and will be mortgage pressure, to have a child, they may not even dare to think.
There is also a kind of couples, husband and wife in the career have been small achievements, income is also very considerable. Such couples are often educated and insightful people who know that the time, energy and money needed to raise a child well is incalculable. Only they themselves understand how much experience and effort they have put behind the small achievements they have made in their careers today. Once there is a child, there is bound to be a person need to give up their own career, which is not only the problem of a large part of the family income is less, their years of hard work, who do not want to let it into the water. So such a couple, will not easily want a child, after all, the sacrifice is too big. The sadder thing is that the party that pays the sacrifice, often may also end up because they can not keep up with each other's footsteps, and finally ended up with nothing. A little bit of calm people, will not easily step out of this step.
After the opening of the second child policy, families with children, many of them want a second child. Because most of those who are in a position to raise a child are also in a position to raise a second one. Except for those families with particularly favorable economic conditions, many families who chose to have a second child are those who have elderly people to help bring up their children, barely middle class.
Why do we say they are middle class? Because they have a house, a car, a fixed deposit, a little financial investment, and an income that is slightly higher than their expenses. Then why is it barely, because the house, the car has a loan, not yet completely belong to them, income is dead salary, but also need to see the face of the boss. Want to spend money to engage in some financial investment, and there are countless pairs of eyes staring at the money in their hands, waiting to cut their leeks. Their days are not good. I thought that having a second child was just one more child. But after the second child was actually born, I realized that I thought it was too simple. The elderly are already exhausted from bringing up one child, another one is not so willing. And the oldest child's tuition, interest classes, the second child's diapers, milk powder, early childhood classes ......, which all cost money. Originally is to run a well-off life, because the arrival of the second child, overnight back to the liberation of the former.
Let them give birth to three children? They can only say to the state, can want two children, we have done our best, three children really can not afford to raise.
Today's low birth rate is not a matter of policy. The cost of raising a child is too high, completely allowing the ordinary "workers" to take up the responsibility of pulling up the birth rate, they really are more than enough and not enough. If there is only a verbal policy of liberalization of the second and third child without substantial economic support, I think that even if ten or eight children are liberalized, raising the birth rate will only be empty words. We'd better get in shape and think about what kind of work we can still do when we are 70 or 80 years old.