almost every editorial I read makes me wanna say something here...
this time, there's some discussion of the new proposals to counter the decreasing birthrates. One of the strategies discussed is training aging freeters to get proper jobs, which would put them in a more secure fiscal position to have children.
But is there some surplus of proper jobs? I don't understand how this is anything but a zero sum game. More people being qualified for good jobs doesnt make more good jobs... at least not immediately or predicatbly.
In a different scenario: Drive more people into the market for jobs, and you increase the competition factor. This could possibly strip the proper jobs of some of their security. If people in the secure jobs or those on the track to secure jobs lose confidence in their security, wouldnt they be less likely to have children (based strictly on the stability factor)?
I still don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a population decrease. (though I'm growing more convinced by the day that Japan's current children are increasingly coddled as they decrease in number)
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