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Subject: Re: The Roads Must Roll -- In Japan, at least
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:22:11 -0800
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On 11/11/24 09:43, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 11/10/2024 9:58 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> Noted by Sarah Hoyt with the blurb:
>>    IT'S HEINLEIN'S WORLD. WE JUST LIVE IN IT.
>>
>> https://www.newser.com/story/359125/japan-has-a-trucker-shortage-its- 
>> solution-is-novel.html
>>
>>
>>
>>     Japan Has a Trucker Shortage. Its Solution Is Novel
>>
>>     Nation plans to build a giant 'conveyor belt road' connecting
>>     Tokyo and Osaka
>>     By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
>>
> It isn't just a shortage of truck drivers, Japan is undergoing a slow 
> motion population implosion.  The age demographic that would be having 
> children is basically refusing to.
> 

	That is because the world they live in is very demanding of youth and 
workers. Which is why so many manga are set in "Other Worlds"
The Japanese governments have not yet come up with a plan that makes
having babies a easy thing especially for the career types. Despite
legal equality a lot of the former regimes are still in power and
intensely pro-male and wealth in there law making.

	bliss just my humble opinion.