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Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by crc32 »

loveyourmother wrote: post #341
jaredklewis wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Contrast that to countries like most of the West, where at least a solid proportion of people consider it socially unacceptable to discriminate socially based on someone's looks or origins.. Those things are also socially unacceptable in Japan. My experience is that the often discussed "micro-agressions" against foreigners happen about as often in Japan as they do in my own country (US, grew up in Texas). Of course…

>The US is so fucked up that we cannot seem to stop shooting unarmed black men Twice as many white men are shot by police but I can't remember the last time I saw a national news story about one of them. Name one in recent years you heard covered in the national news. [0] I edited out "unarmed". That ratio slightly favors white males. >we're separating mothers from babies, and as of last week now tear gassing familie…

> Twice as many unarmed white men are shot by police

I visited your link and could not see a matching statistic.

Filtering by "unarmed" and hovering over "Race" I got a count of 19 White, 15 Black, 4 Hispanic.

I then also had a quick look at the article for "Brett Luengo", [0] (White) which states i.e. "Luengo attacked a woman first..." etc. etc.; I mean it goes on for quite a while. So seems like there's a big variation in the definition of "unarmed man" shooting that doesn't preclude other kinds of violent or aggressive activity/indications.

Looks to me like the statistics are not really telling the whole story there so maybe that's why you don't hear them "covered in the national news".

[0] https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-met...

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by eric_khun »

becauseiam wrote: post #74
mettamage wrote: post #52

So wait, there are places where there are houses being given away (e.g. US, Japan and Italy as far as I know) and I'm a person that has the ability to work remotely. Am I missing something? Is this my ticket to cheap housing and a more stress free life? At what point am I going to be scammed and/or disappointed?

Owning property or land in Japan does not give you right to reside within the country and you will still need to get some sort of visa in place in order to move in.

What's the easiest path to get a visa in Japan without being attached to a company?

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by crc32 »

philliphaydon wrote: post #339
jaredklewis wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Contrast that to countries like most of the West, where at least a solid proportion of people consider it socially unacceptable to discriminate socially based on someone's looks or origins.. Those things are also socially unacceptable in Japan. My experience is that the often discussed "micro-agressions" against foreigners happen about as often in Japan as they do in my own country (US, grew up in Texas). Of course…

It must be hard working on the border when people bring children that are not their own to fast tack their way through into the country. Or when families lie about their child’s age to loophole the system. But it’s easier for us to focus on the separation rather than the reason the separation exists to begin with. And let’s not forget tear gas being used for crowds of people throwing stones at border patrol. No lets…

> people bring children that are not their own to fast tack their way through into the country. Or when families lie about their child’s age to loophole the system.

Completely citation & evidence free assertions - smells like slander to me.

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by netjiro »

adventured wrote: post #280
snowwrestler wrote: post #227

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I disagree that there is a significant correlation between expanding population and an expanding economy. In fact there are plenty of examples of countries whose economy expanded way faster than their population, which implies that factors other than population dominate economic growth. (If population was the dominant factor in economic growth, we would see a consistent correlation between the two.) Every day we read…

One prominent recent example that destroys the myth that economic expansion is very tightly bound to population expansion, is the US. 2008 pop: 304m people. 2018 pop: ~327m people. A 7.5% increase in population across a decade. 2008 GDP: $14.72t ($17.64t inflation adjusted). 2018 GDP: $20.5t. Approximately a 17% real increase in GDP. The US added an economy close to the size of Germany in just ten years while only ad…

It's easy to grow fast while borrowing heavily, and that should be taken into account when looking at growth curves for various economic regions. Oil prices have also dropped from around $100 to $60 iirc.

2008-2018: total US debt (government, corporate, household, non-profit orgs) increased almost 9% from ca $68.1T to $74.1T, if you trust the numbers (https://www.nwcapitalsolutions.com/project/us-deleveraging-a...)

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by kalleboo »

laurieg wrote: post #261
jameslk wrote: post #218

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Japan is not a very good proxy due to their strict immigration policies and preference to be an "ethnically homogeneous nation." As you mentioned, other countries can just replenish their head count through relaxed immigration. I'd wager, for example, that the US will remain highly multicultural with looser immigration long term since it's baked into its identity[0], despite some recent policy changes. 0. https://en.…

"Japan has strict immigration policies" is often repeated, but I don't think this is tells the whole story. Some of the policies are very permissive: * If you graduated university and have a 'skilled' job in Japan, you are likely to get a visa. There is no cap on the number of these. There is no language requirement. * If you live in Japan for over 5 years continuously you can apply for citizenship, though you must r…

The difference is in unskilled workers. The US has open gates to unskilled Mexican workers, Europe has open gates to unskilled Middle Eastern workers. Japan has nothing like that.

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by Faark »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #293
skissane wrote: post #285

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That's not infinite growth. There are only a finite number of humans on earth who could possibly play the game, and many of those either have no interest or can't afford to do so. And, of all those potential players, each of them only has finite disposable income. So there is a hard upper limit on their revenue, without growth in world population (to increase population of potential players) or growth in the world ec…

> There are only a finite number of humans on earth who could possibly play the game, and many of those either have no interest or can't afford to do so. And, of all those potential players, each of them only has finite disposable income. So there is a hard upper limit on their revenue The proposed metric, a product of population and incomes, is unbounded (in aggregate). Population isn’t. But nominal incomes, a funct…

You two comments strongly remind me of what is currently happening in Venezuela. Having bigger numbers on your money or bank account isn't necessarily a good metric.

Anyway, let me rephrase your argument to make sure I understand it correctly:

There exists resource sinks like Fortnite, media & alike. Thus regardless of how much growth we will have / more efficient we become, even more would be better so we can spend it on those sinks.

This seems technically correct, but I doubt this is how our civilization should spend the finite amount of resources available.

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by philliphaydon »

crc32 wrote: post #353
philliphaydon wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It must be hard working on the border when people bring children that are not their own to fast tack their way through into the country. Or when families lie about their child’s age to loophole the system. But it’s easier for us to focus on the separation rather than the reason the separation exists to begin with. And let’s not forget tear gas being used for crowds of people throwing stones at border patrol. No lets…

> people bring children that are not their own to fast tack their way through into the country. Or when families lie about their child’s age to loophole the system. Completely citation & evidence free assertions - smells like slander to me.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-dna-20180...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrant-children-being-used-as-co...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/illegal-immigration-e...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adults-posing-as-chi...

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/2/illegal-immigr...

I Guess cos cnn didn’t talk about it, it must be slander and lies tho.

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by malydok »

eric_khun wrote: post #352
becauseiam wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Owning property or land in Japan does not give you right to reside within the country and you will still need to get some sort of visa in place in order to move in.

What's the easiest path to get a visa in Japan without being attached to a company?

Wedding. Would like to know that, too.

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by eric_khun »

malydok wrote: post #358
eric_khun wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the easiest path to get a visa in Japan without being attached to a company?

Wedding. Would like to know that, too.

Ah this might work! But this makes you to be legally attached to someone, what isn't great I guess :(

Re: Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

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Post by loveyourmother »

crc32 wrote: post #351
loveyourmother wrote: post #341

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The US is so fucked up that we cannot seem to stop shooting unarmed black men Twice as many white men are shot by police but I can't remember the last time I saw a national news story about one of them. Name one in recent years you heard covered in the national news. [0] I edited out "unarmed". That ratio slightly favors white males. >we're separating mothers from babies, and as of last week now tear gassing familie…

> Twice as many unarmed white men are shot by police I visited your link and could not see a matching statistic. Filtering by "unarmed" and hovering over "Race" I got a count of 19 White, 15 Black, 4 Hispanic. I then also had a quick look at the article for "Brett Luengo", [0] (White) which states i.e. "Luengo attacked a woman first..." etc. etc.; I mean it goes on for quite a while. So seems like there's a big varia…

> I visited your link and could not see a matching statistic.

I was wrong. Police kill twice as many whites but I shouldn't have included the unarmed qualifier.

> I then also had a quick look at the article for "Brett Luengo"

He did attack but I think it still qualifies. I personally didn't hear of this one but a google search shows it was covered, even if not very extensively. It was picked up on national news.

Even still, the comment that law enforcement is wholesale killing young unarmed black males is just false.

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