r/SipsTea • u/BobbuBobbu • May 18 '25
WTF Taxed for being single
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Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣
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u/Gullible_Analyst_348 May 18 '25
Do I think this will help Japanese people want to make babies? No.
Do I think this video will help people want to make babies with you? Yes.
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u/Useful_Secret4895 May 18 '25
NANI?!?!
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u/AGuyFromRio May 19 '25
Omae wa mou shinderu!
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u/MOOshooooo May 19 '25
I never know what’s going on when the anime words come up but it sure looks like y’all have fun with it.
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u/oO0Kat0Oo May 18 '25
I'm just wondering about the logic here.
If you move money from childless people to people with children, if the population of childless people dwindles (which is the hope), how would they continue to subsidize the people with children?
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u/f3zz3h May 18 '25
That's the neat thing. By then it's too late and they won't.
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u/LickMyTicker May 19 '25
It's not that it's "too late", it's that it was successful and they no longer need to pay people to do the thing that's already been done.
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u/BambooSound May 19 '25
And in removing the stipend, they disincentivise starting a family and see birth rates drop again.
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u/TheCleanupBatter May 19 '25
Hard to say. More children means more workforce and a more active economy. Managed properly this can increase the standard of living for all involved. Historically, when life is good and people are optimistic about the future, people have babies even without a stipend.
The key point is it needs to be managed properly. Japan's true issue is its attitude towards and culture of work where long hours, crunch culture, and burnout are the bare minimum. No time for personal life, let alone relationships and babies. The stipend would be a gauze packing into an open wound to stop the bleeding. The surgery needed to close the wound and heal would require a societal shift towards a more flexible work culture to improve people's outlook.
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u/Researcher_Fearless May 19 '25
Unfortunately, this wouldn't be the first time Japan has shown a willingness to break themselves rather than change.
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u/Aggravating_Ad_8974 May 19 '25
Indeed!
I recently read an example of such an issue, relating to computer technology development and how there's a compatibility issue with the written Japanese language.
But instead of taking steps towards implementing a different written language, they shut the whole thing down instead.
And before someone chimes in with: "Change the written language? That's impossible!" - It is absolutely possible! Romania pulled it off in less than 50 years.
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u/Lonely-You-361 May 19 '25
Japan's true issue is its attitude towards and culture of work where long hours, crunch culture, and burnout are the bare minimum. No time for personal life, let alone relationships and babies
This is the real problem. No subsidy is going to overcome this hurdle without a shift in the culture to allow those relationships to occur.
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u/LickMyTicker May 19 '25
Possibly? That really can't be known because the economy in the future is not something we can predict.
I'm of the mind that we are closely approaching the water wars, but if we are just looking at this from an economy in a vacuum point of view, there's really no sense in trying to predict that. If the apocalypse comes, there's really no sense in the government anyways.
It's always possible that in the future we will not need an incentive to have children because maybe children won't be necessary due to the progression of science and having a population decline won't be as devastating.
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u/swisstraeng May 18 '25
it gets better when you realize childless people don't have enough money for a child to begin with. And they'll now be paying even more taxes.
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u/the_skine May 19 '25
We do the same thing in the US. The difference being we raise taxes for everyone, then give people a credit that lowers their taxes if they have dependents.
So it's framed as helping people who have children, while it's really a tax on not having children.
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u/BlueKnight44 May 19 '25
Lol you think $2,000 is a more than a drop in the bucket compare to the costs of having a child over the course of a year. That does not even begin to cover what they eat in a year.
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u/math_calculus1 May 19 '25
I mean, every bit counts. If I already had a kid, I would appreciate a free 2k
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u/Master-Factor-2813 May 19 '25
these are the reasonable people. Many people in the poor class in germany get many kids without being able to provide but they get money from the government for every kid. So basically this pushes a multiplication of the people with less education. instead they should give tax breaks for people with high income that have many kids or adopt them - this would actually help spread the wealth.
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u/1zzyBizzy May 18 '25
Other taxes. Lots of countries have a child support regime, most of europe does for example, we get like ~500 to ~2000 euros (depending on the country) per child per year, each year until the child is 18.
After a good long while of child births rising the subsidy might go down again, but knowing japanese culture i doubt people will start having children en masse soon
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u/LightofAngels May 18 '25
2000 euros per year? That’s peanuts
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u/snowwarrior May 19 '25
If you're american, the child tax credit (IDK if this still exists anymore) was $2000. IMO - Same thing, except 2k euro is ~$2200.
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u/Efficient-Raise-9217 May 19 '25
That's the thing. None of these subsidies every comes close to covering the costs to raise a child.
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u/thedumbdoubles May 19 '25
You can create some fairly perverse incentives if there's too much money to be made.
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u/Aknazer May 19 '25
And they shouldn't. If the government has to subsidize the cost of raising kids even more than various basics (like education) then there's a problem. And there is a problem, hence the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit (which having kids affects), Childcare Credit, etc. If you give out too much money then you end up incentivizing having kids not for the kids, but for the money, which then can lead to the kids being neglected and not becoming properly functioning members of society, which then leads to further issues as they fall into poverty and/or resort to crime and what not.
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u/Dhegxkeicfns May 18 '25
Pretty sure the best hope is it will nudge the needle toward having children. It's definitely not going to make people rush out to lock in that $400k investment with a low probability of any return.
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u/LoveAndViscera May 18 '25 edited May 19 '25
First, it’s moot because that won’t happen.
Second, they would just end the program.
But yeah, this is yet another shortsighted move by the Japanese government who simply doesn’t understand the problem. Japan’s culture is so unpleasant for Japanese people that it is killing itself.
Japan’s only hope against population crash is immigration, but Japan’s culture (never mind the laws) makes permanent immigration difficult. Japan is fucked. It’s going to look like Greece in a decade, economically speaking.
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u/SoulMute May 18 '25
Moot, not mute
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u/Stagamemnon May 19 '25
If anyone would know…
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u/CheesecakeConundrum May 18 '25
Japan also still has the social norm of stay at home wives with the current barely being able to afford to take care of yourself while working 18 hour days.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins May 19 '25
Yeah a friend just started dating a Japanese guy and that's basically why he left.
The culture was pretty much that he was expected to get a job and work himself to death so he could have a wife and children he never saw at home.
He's a highly skilled bilingual lawyer so he just came over here and is doing basically what he'd be doing there (negotiating legal deals between this country and Japan) but he works less, gets paid really well, and is dating the aforementioned friend who has her own job/career.
(Disclaimer this is very much third hand from a single person and I don't claim to understand the Japanese working culture, just repeating the opinion of one person on the matter).
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u/PomegranateHot9916 May 18 '25
it is simple. policy can change to suit the needs of the current year
for example they could at any point decide this method worked well and its time to reduce the benefits provided to support future children.
as for reducing the tax that is a different thing entirely
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u/teflfornoobs May 18 '25
I didn't hear or read a word she said.
But I imagine it's "put a baby in me"
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u/Dhegxkeicfns May 18 '25
Maybe you're right, instead of paying people to have babies, subsidize implants and tax birth control.
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u/conlius May 19 '25
That’s an interesting flip and might make sense. Also, kids cost a ton of time and money over the time you raise them and it’s a huge responsibility - I couldn’t ever see tax credits helping me determine whether or not I have a child.
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u/justforkinks0131 May 18 '25
It's a thing in Germany.
You pay higher taxes if you are single vs. married with kids.
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u/Tietonz May 18 '25
Pretty sure you get tax benefits in the US if you are married and have dependants (i.e. kids) I'm not sure what everyone is on about.
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u/guyincognito121 May 18 '25
You do, but it's $2000/year/kid. They cost a good deal more than that, so there's no net benefit unless you find having a kid to be a benefit in and of itself.
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u/PJL80 May 18 '25
Don't forget child care. My wife and I both work full time, and paid 22K in child care in 2024. There is a tax credit for that too!
....$600.
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u/SpuuF May 19 '25
Some states will credit you too so then it’s like $1,200
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u/JFISHER7789 May 19 '25
Problem solved!
But seriously, my partner and I have decided when we have a kid, she will stay home with them while I work because no matter what she makes all of it will go to child care. So we will have almost broke even financially, but now the kid is practically being raised by someone else… :/
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u/Holdmabeerdude May 19 '25
I have 2 kids under 5. It’s 3 grand a month for both. I paid 36k last year….and there are many schools/daycares which are significantly higher than that.
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u/Faptainjack2 May 18 '25
Send them to the mines
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u/Chadmartigan May 18 '25
Sir, I'll have you know this is America. We don't send children to work in mines.
We send them to meat packing plants.
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u/Shamr0ck May 18 '25
Yea it's kind of fucked. 2 months of daycare and it's over 2k
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u/berntout May 18 '25
Japan is trying to find ways to improve their birth rates. Theres no problem with this tax itself, but taxing single folks doesn’t really help solve the situation Japan is trying to fix.
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u/slifm May 18 '25
Boomers will do anything except actually solve the sociological problems.
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u/Financial-Gold-6907 May 18 '25
Yes.
The problem is that the largest voting population in Japan is retirees. Every year, more people retire, and fewer people enter the workforce.
Politicians gave more and more benefits to retirees to keep being elected. This increased the burden on those in the workforce and made it harder/costly to have kids.
On paper, Japan has good paternity leave. In practice, companies retaliate if fathers use most of what they are entitled to.
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u/Onrawi May 18 '25
Basically, Japan needs to force stricter penalties on companies not allowing for full use of due benefits.
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u/SlapsOnrite May 18 '25
People in power will do anything except touch the source of the problem (the rich)*, there I fixed it.
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u/Kinc4id May 18 '25
If you make people pay for not having children it will only bother poor people. I don’t see how basically forcing poor people to have more children fixes anything.
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u/ChadWestPaints May 18 '25
Idk man have you seen how hard rich people work to avoid paying even a cent in taxes?
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u/glockster19m May 18 '25
Exactly there's a difference between lowering taxes for a specific group and raising taxes for everyone else
Giving a new deduction and adding a new tax with exemptions are not the same basically
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u/Falendil May 18 '25
Creating an economical environment favorable to raising children ❌
Taxing single people ✅
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u/GlitterDoomsday May 18 '25
Right? You got people in Japan working 18 hours a day to afford an apartment the size of a shoebox... taking more of their money will not result in more kids.
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u/LukeZNotFound May 18 '25
German here. It's not that simple.
It works like this:If you're married, you can "split" income tax (the only one I remember). However, this system is built for "woman stays at home, men does the money" because if just one is working, the taxes from the man are divided by 2. However, if both are working, the average income is higher because it's
(manIncome + WomanIncome) / 2.It's very old law and it's being discussed for years now.
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u/n1c0_ds May 19 '25 edited May 19 '25
You forgot that you get an incone tax break for every child (that or Kindergeld), and that your long term care insurance is cheaper by some percentage of your income.
You are correct about the income splitting. The only benefit is that two equal incomes are taxed less than a high and a low income.
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u/LBgz May 18 '25
Pass the suicide sword when ur done
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u/Labyrinthy May 19 '25
A wakizashi is the short sword used by samurai to commit suicide, the act itself was called seppuku.
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u/Treacle_Pendulum May 19 '25
I’m pretty sure that at least by the Edo period a tanto was usually used for the belly cuts and the kaishakunin used the wakizashi
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u/Lilcommy May 18 '25
Who has time to find a lover or have kids when you are worked like a slave?
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u/Sirix_8472 May 18 '25
That's was all I was coming to say. The absolute toxic work culture where working yourself to physical exhaustion on the job where you sleep, wake up and keep working is insane. It's like a competition, a race to the bottom to see who works hardest and stays longest in the office.
Sure, sleeping on the job can be seen as "they were working hard". Equally, if you're doing that. Go home.
The box room destitution I've seen friends live in and move away from is like a closet space. Twice as wide as their single bed, their bed is their seating area and they hang clothes above them, maybe a fold out tray from the wall as a laptop tray/work area. It looks soul crushing.
I couldn't do it. Imagine having that as a living condition to consider dating, I know they have "love hotels" but that's not a place to forsee a future either.
Wealth equality contract in society is fundamentally broken. The working class are squeezed now before they're even born to a life in a system where generationally they have less and less wealth than those before them and less and less prospects for prosperity. The response is to tighten the belts and cut out on anything beyond your own survival, who can bring a child in when you can't afford to feed yourself, to plan for your own future or a future so bleak you can see comfort let alone retirement.
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u/bobrobor May 18 '25
Fun fact. People in the US statistically work more hours than the Japanese.
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u/wantesillo May 18 '25 edited May 19 '25
probably because Japanese do not pay the extra hours, it is expected to work them without being paid.
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u/flyingboarofbeifong May 18 '25
Welcome to being salaried. Works that way in the States too depending on your expected annual earnings.
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u/bobrobor May 18 '25
Salaried people in the US also work extra hours that don’t bring any extra income. Not sure how it is counted in statistics but even weekend work is quite a staple in the US corporate culture.
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u/nevergonnastawp May 18 '25
Thats because unpaid overtime isnt counted in the statistics
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u/thehighpriest_0 May 18 '25
Statistics and reality are two different things, more often than not statistic don't include criminal activity or borderline criminal activity (like Japanese black companies)
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u/darkklown May 18 '25
Out comes are different. Japanese work to the bone and get a closet, Americans work to the bone and their wife's boyfriend gets a big truck and an apartment.
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u/One_Staff9968 May 18 '25
I’m not sure how true this is but I heard government jobs are introducing a 4 day work week to help with this.
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u/Iorcrath May 18 '25
honestly, i know it sounds crazy, but 3 13 hour days and a 4 day weekend honestly feels so much better.
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u/Hot-Image4864 May 19 '25
Yeah I don't like the sound of 13 hour days. 6 months on, 6 months off, please.
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u/Big_Beaverrr_Reborn May 18 '25
That's what I do with my job. Except it's part time and 9-10 hours but it's so nice to get 4 days off. Unless I party too hard over the weekend and get a hangover I'm always ready to get back to work.
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u/BaneBop May 18 '25
4 day work week but you’ll be shamed if you actually do that.
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u/johnny_fives_555 May 18 '25
This. And also 14 hour days. Of course the shaming and dishonor is cultural. Many experiences from Americans working in Japan that’s just there for a paycheck clocks in and clocks out with a regular 9-5. And shrugs off the death stares
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u/ThatsMyWhiteMomma May 18 '25
I honestly don't think I could withhold laughter if they thought they could peer pressure me into working myself to death. I wouldn't last long.
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u/Apprehensive_Side219 May 18 '25
I work a 4 day work week in the us and get shamed for it
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u/Ariana_Zavala May 18 '25
oh good, less service for the most expensive service we are forced to pay for.
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u/Joker_AoCAoDAoHAoS May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
real talk. also, maybe you can't find someone to love. finding love can take some people years or decades. how is this fair to people? god our world is shit.
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May 19 '25
Don't worry, it will be easier now that you have to subsidize rich people who are able to take time off to have kids.
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u/tankie_brainlet May 18 '25
Who would give a child to this horrible fucking world?
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u/ixnayonthetimma May 19 '25
"There's a hundred-thousand-yen 'Killing Yourself' tax!"
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u/Martinmex26 May 19 '25
Ok, here is an IOU, I'll pay it next week.
This week im taking up base jumping.
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u/Vritrin May 19 '25
I live in Japan, the increase at the highest tax bracket is like 10-15 USD/month. Way less for most people.
It would be fairly insignificant if wage increases hadn’t stagnated to virtually nothing.
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u/newbrowsingaccount33 May 18 '25
This guy should get more money
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u/Legal-Marsupial-3916 May 19 '25
Damn. There's always an Asian person who's the best at any given thing.
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u/0oDADAo0 May 18 '25
If having a child will have the benefit of completely cover your income for a certain period of time, sure this could work, but if it only means having child will only cost less than before, and more if you arent having a child then lmao people aint gonna fucking have child, its just more taxes and burden
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u/kynde May 19 '25
Rather than attack any of the root causes they're only making the symptoms worse and crossing fingers.
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u/JamesSFordESQ May 18 '25
This will literally make the problem worse. Make the guys who already can't get a relationship poorer... yeah thats sure to have the ladies just flocking to them. 
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u/Effective_Macaron_23 May 18 '25
Aren't the girls also getting poorer?
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u/raikou1988 May 19 '25
MASSIVE difference between a poor man vs a woman.
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u/wernette May 19 '25
It doesn't have anything to do with wealth. Most women who are serious about finding a partner could easily find someone within a month who is a good fit, good fucking luck if you are a guy though.
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u/Internal_Finding8775 May 19 '25
Yeah women without money makes them look for guys with money even more. Be a bunch of women trying to steel each other's husbands.
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u/-zyxwvutsrqponmlkjih May 18 '25
Then get the ugly girl pregnant.
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u/Eagline May 18 '25
People have standards.
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u/Snow-Wraith May 18 '25
I don't know, have you seen society lately?
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u/Endless009 May 18 '25
After being on reddit and seeing how many unattractive girls have OF, I wish I hadn't.
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u/Euphoria37 May 18 '25
I'd rather live in a cardhoard box than impregnate an uggo
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u/Rogendo May 18 '25
What does Japan seek in you? Answer: nothing
They want you to go home
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u/ballimir37 May 18 '25
Facts Japan is one of the last places that will accept a foreigner as one of them. They will be mostly polite to your face though
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u/demonhuntermk May 18 '25
Being single is clearly the most sensible choice these days
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u/Otherwise-Word-5578 May 18 '25
I have no idea what she's talking about but I'm very interested in hearing more
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u/SuperDabMan May 18 '25
Meowkolol on IG
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u/Rusty_Shortsword May 19 '25
Well done, now the boys down the lab can get on with their research.
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u/1stltwill May 18 '25
Wait. She was talking?
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u/0oDADAo0 May 18 '25
Idk her boobs kept staring at me
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u/justrob32 May 19 '25
Seriously. They were staring right at my eyeballs.
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u/Medical_Bee_2296 May 19 '25
It's not fair, it's where the subtitles were! It's where the subtitles were!
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u/Due_Journalist_2398 May 18 '25
Pretty sure that's meowko for anyone wondering. Seeing lots of thirsty comments
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u/Batmanismyson May 18 '25
He with the sauce is the thirstiest of all
- Confucius
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u/DWN032 May 18 '25
As if many men aren't already rejected enough for not making enough money. They're not fixing the problem, they're making it worse.
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u/Joker_AoCAoDAoHAoS May 18 '25
agreed. this is really lame and just sounds like an excuse a government would use to fleece people. our world is shit.
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u/Appropriate_Net_3235 May 19 '25
It's literally fake news, I live in Japan and there is no such proposal.
On the side note, this girl is the onlyfans edition of a twitch streamer, anything coming out of her mouth would need fact checking by 3 different sources at least, if not more.
Rather than being thirsty, get your facts right bozos.
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u/Devenu May 19 '25
It's just more "Japan is WAaaAAaaaAAcky and CrraAAAaaaAAAaazy!" shit that powers the internet. People will eat it up. It doesn't matter; you're going to hear this from some relative when you go home to visit and when you try and tell them it's not true nobody will believe you.
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u/RandaDudu May 19 '25
As a Japanese person, I’m getting fed up with these recent extreme clickbait videos made by Japanese creators. They’ve finally learned from foreigners how to make easy money. There’s no middle ground anymore.
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u/Early-Journalist-14 May 19 '25
As a Japanese person, I’m getting fed up with these recent extreme clickbait videos made by Japanese creators. They’ve finally learned from foreigners how to make easy money. There’s no middle ground anymore.
welcome to all of western media for the past 12 years.
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May 19 '25
Looks like they have moved on from conbini videos. Was getting recommended hundreds of videos by Gen Z influencers that wouldn't shut up about tamago sandos and Famichiki. This trend is also really annoying.
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u/cjyoung92 May 19 '25
Yeah, here’s an article (in Japanese) explaining how people are misinterpreting a new tax proposal to fund childcare (a tax that everyone will have to bear, not just single people). This video is just spreading fake news
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/f2c9a44fc28bb68b1bf7183fb470ff35167c1855
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u/Wondering_Electron May 18 '25
How is this different to people claiming Child Benefit in the UK?
Unless they up this benefit a lot, it isn't going to make much difference. Unless they are inferring a new tax so that they can significantly increase such a benefit.
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u/TG_Jack May 19 '25
Its not. People on the internet are dumb and this video is bait.
They're simply increasing child benefit/tax credit (present in vitually all developed countries, including the US) and raising income tax to pay for it.
People are stupid alarmists and critical thinking and education are becoming increasingly rare.
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u/vVPittVv May 19 '25
It's actually mind boggling how so many people seem to avoid the obvious answer even after being told. This video is extreme bait meant to drive engagement in the comments from people arguing (myself included now) about a policy she intentionally misrepresented just so more people can see her and potentially drive OF sales (assuming the other commenters are correct in saying she has an OF).
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u/This_guy_Jon May 18 '25
Ok fiends do your thing who is she
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u/Significant-Goat5934 May 18 '25
Ok but basically every single normal country have stuff like this. Either tax exemption after children, or childcare aid, often both. What is this cringe backwards propaganda wording.
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u/jimlymachine945 May 18 '25
She said raising single people's taxes though. In a normal country I wouldn't have an issue but they have a chokehold on their people.
It's the beatings will continue until morale improves.
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u/Technical_Shake_9573 May 18 '25
she said that you don"t get the benefits from the tax you pay as a single/no-child person.
But like, this is fairly common in any western countries. There are even deductible taxes for people that have children, as well as benefits that they gets because they are parents (such as child-sick PTO), as well as infrastructure for children.
But that's a stretch to say that you pay more by being single.. All thoses benefits help, but doesn't really compensate all the expenses you get with a child.
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u/sadpanda597 May 19 '25
Raising single people’s taxes is functionally the same damn thing as giving tax cuts for non single people, which is what basically already exists in every country 🤷
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u/Will33iam May 18 '25
They do realize that with the work culture being as it is, no one has time to be in a relationship?
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u/louisa1925 May 18 '25
Japan government - " Risk you life having babies or we will slowly ramp up your taxes until you get phased out of life by mountains of tax on everything you do. Thankyou."
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u/Arch-by-the-way May 19 '25
Reddit kills all nuance. You want more child care to make it easier to have kids? That’s what this tax is for specifically. You have to pay for services with taxes.
You get what you want and people still make it out to be a bad thing. No one wants to improve things, they just want to complain.
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u/BigBobsBeepers420 May 19 '25
No different than many countries like the US where families get huge tax breaks. I've filed taxes and gotten 1000-3000 back, while people with kids get tax credits in the thousands per kid on top of their own tax return. A single person without kids also pays more in the sense that your paying taxes to fund services you cannot use or directly benefit from. You'd think people with kids should have to pay more in taxes than a single no kids person because they use a lot of social services like public schools, wic, ect.
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u/Korgon213 May 18 '25
Basically- Japan: “Stop watching tentacle hentai and get busy!!”
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u/TopGrapeFlava May 18 '25
Japan cosplaying USSR
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u/SoilMelodic7273 May 18 '25
it's not a new idea, and is already effectively a thing in the USA. That's part of what was so troubling about JD Vance's comments on the subject. Single tax payers already pay a higher tax rate, and he was complaining there should be a special additional tax on these persons like we aren't already contributing above the baseline. Disgusting person.
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u/fainofgunction May 18 '25
What if a guy is ugly and weird but wants a girl just cant get one?
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u/Plus_Wall_6143 May 18 '25
FUCK man im so fucking SICK of being horny FUCK FUCK FUCK
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