0:00 [Music] Japan's super cheap corn snacks apologize for a second ever price increase I saw this man it was they should commit the puku dude that it was like how dare they what brand this is called UMO nailed it it's this guy you know the little it's like cigar it's a corn snack oh W the yeah and they just increased the prices bomb dude the second time for for 45 years that's tight 45 but they're a they're like really sorry about it did you say how much it was it is 10 Yen nailed it and uh yeah so that's no it was 10 Yen back in 1979 now it's double
0:51 that they did like a 2cent increase wow that's funny apologize too it's good they actually got one of the executives to I cut himself open during the ceremony really yeah cuz every single time they do a price increase they have to give one of their own sacrifice that makes sense and right now they've been doing that a lot in Japan from the economy dude like there's that's why there's a population decrease they don't tell you about that what's happening in the economy right now in Japan oh dude they're y as ████ really it's like dropped like 70% or some ████ that's why everybody is going there like everything is cheap so cheap dude they'll give you a house and like you can get a chick and stuff yeah cuz they're basically like hey a living wife no cuz they're like hey come here and like breed oh yeah yeah yeah yeah there's like a breeder
1:42 Visa or some ████ crazy they're desperate domestic flights right now from City to City are free what and they're they're going like crazy on the advertising they're like we'll give you if you buy a house or whatever like that it's like you have a right to one Kung guzzlin ████ for um the grey Japanese Japanese just one just one just one just one don't be all greedy so cheap is the birthday problem like just men don't want to have babies or women don't either it's both it's all the above so then if you move there it's probably not going to make a difference it's the same um issue that we're kind of seeing across the board with Gen Z and Millennials we're having kids much later but it's like times 10 out there because you know like Asian work culture sucks and then they like the gender thing
2:33 hasn't really changed yet where women you still work but then you still do all the house chores so are people's happy like you know when they do those happiness level surveys Japan is pretty low right now they have the highest suicide rate in the world wow in the world they compete with Korea so they're always going no we're more suicidal no we are wow but I think Korea and Japan has very similar work cultures and I and then the success of the countries are similar too like right after destruction after the war like and then Japan was also involved in Korea's like rebuilding with the us cuz the US Japan and Korea are all kind of In Cahoots right and then um they modeled themselves based off the US government and they rebuilt as quick as possible in less than like 30 years they became an economic power
3:23 so there they were Workaholics like crazy so there's a whole generation of like this no family unit and so you have parents Workaholics kids after school you have your like prep school ████ for college and no one actually grew up with the family you know what I mean so like you only my grandma's generation remembers what it's like to have family so my parents generation and all that like they're just like so they just like soulless robots yeah and then so now the the next generation is like why would I want a family I didn't I never had a family my you know Dad's always at work I never met the guy you know and then like I'm sure cre is the same too where it's like if you there's no it's it's nothing but materialism so you just work
4:13 your ass off and then there's no real like people aren't marrying for love and I'm not saying everyone's doing this it's just like so common that it's like why try you have to do so much and if you're a guy and you're single and you're doing like well for yourself you're going to have to give all of that up like MoneyWise right and they're like for what I'm not even give it give it up how so like traditionally um the way that it works is guys go out earn bread and then you kick up that money to your wife your wife stays at home manages the finances that's why one of the biggest stock Traders hom like that ████ well no they they work now too so dual income has to happen dual income has to happen now cuz it's impossible but that's traditional right so a man all he's supposed to do is just ████ work his ass off and he
5:03 just brings the money home the the wife takes care of the bills organizes the funds and that's why the biggest one of the biggest stock trading groups in Japan are Housewives my grandma did that ████ dude my my my dad my grandpa was a marine right and he was just too busy doing stuff on base and stuff so my grandma balanced a checkbook took care of all the finances like that was the whole thing she was born during the Great Depression this ████ is doing that stuff but now you can't trust no ████ money too they where' you get that new purse yeah you know what's crazy with Gen Z like this next Generation there's this huge like conservative slash uh going back to traditional gender roles type movement that's which is really interesting that ████ ain't happening in Asia yeah they'll they'll interview these little like 13 14 year old kids and they're talking about like oh yeah I want to be the one that works and
5:53 they're the ones like I want to be the Homemaker at home and it's like crazy to see like a whole thing kind of like swing back around where they I maybe they're witnessing the you have to work and take care of the kids thing and like trying to fight for equality in the workplace they see that that doesn't really work so there's like this whole new movement with like super young kids where they almost sound like Boomers and it's like oh ████ you know what's interesting Gen X has a higher rate of staying together as a family than Boomers Gen X I think right now is in their 50s and they're the they're the fathers and mothers of the genz so like they're more like the philosophy is like less work more family spending time with kids all this stuff Boomers were like the parents of
6:43 Millennials right and so we grew up with a lot of like divorce and also like workaholic parents they were keeping up with the Jones and stuff like that so I was like oh I think that's pretty interesting right cuz then we're seeing this new generation that's like more like yeah um if I do have a family I want to be more traditional about it and then the ones that don't want to have a family they're complete it's like two complete polar things but wouldn't that time frame coincide with like the state of like even like economy for example the the idea of like how much the American dream is so much more difficult to attain because house prices don't reflect wages and stuff which is why people got forced into having a dual income for the household which makes it harder for women to want to have children or or raise a kid in general for the family like you know what I mean like they no
7:33 100% yeah yeah so if it we would have to solve that problem where the that lovable life in the American dream for us is attainable I know we're talking about Japan but I think it's the easiest easily solv this problem but people don't want to do it well I mean I think I think you go like this you go like this right pull it out of California go to literally any other the 49 states bam one one person can stay home and the other person can go to work but I do think regardless if it's California or Japan or whatever right like if you think about if you think about females that are working and earning their own money and being independent and stuff like that a lot of them don't want
8:23 to get married and lose all of that freedom like if you think about like like like a more traditional Society like Japan is like you're both male and females once you become get together you're both like now your freedom is gone so you staying youthful doing whatever the ████ you want consuming and just playing all day life is much easier but now you have a duty to the family cuz you know the Asian thing is like now it's not about you once you have this different role everything is about the the kid or everything is about there's like no sense of self anymore and I think that's that's a little bit different but you see a sign of that in the US too where a lot of people are like well I don't know like do I really want to like buy more
9:13 ████ and have more kids and then they see it as a burden I think they just need to see like balance their shortterm and long-term goals and then seeing the ROI of these of these things because a lot of them it's like I I like the freedom of being a ████ my sex robot in the closet yeah it's like or or getting into actual fulfilling relationship and going wait this type of codependency that we have is actually way better than the amount of masturbation I've been doing and having the freedom of you know sex robot doesn't talk back you can include the sex robot you have a great relationship include the sex robot yeah side that sh robot winning yeah Best of Both Worlds I think so the replacement rate in society is two meaning there's man and woman then you have you need to have two kids per couple for a society
10:03 to sustain 2.1 if you want to grow 2.1 United States something like 1.6 meaning United States is going backwards Japan and Korea are like7 wow yeah China's hurting too significantly lower than the two necessary for if you look at it it's like okay what is causing that to be 7 when you have to be at two that's such a big gap and if you look the most lowest birth rates in the world are the the countries that have most technology and consumerism if you look at Africa their birth rate is like four wow they have no technology no consumerism and they are mating like rabbits they have kids popping out everywhere the ones that have the most technology which is Japan Korea they are not having kids I think the technology is making people want things that they don't actually need
10:54 that you focus on things because the most common answer you get when you ask a couple young couple why don't you have kids they say well it's too expensive but then you go to the bar in the club and it's packed so it's not actually a money issue because it's a priorities issue they want to have all these things in life that society says you're supposed to have but I don't want to sacrifice that for my kids that's me I want all of that that's me right the reality is that you have to give up certain things in your life and focus on your kids kids aren't actually that expensive but they're an you have children you have a lot they don't cost as much as you think question wife a bottle at the club is significantly more expensive than than your kids are wouldn't okay so $100 Sushi is way more expensive than than your kid but you will spend all that and you don't want to spend it on your children it's a time
11:44 it's a Time cost I but I believe that the people that don't want kids didn't grow up in a good family so it's like why would you want something that was horrible for you you know like and then if everything around you like let's say your whole you know it's like like you see failed relationship after fa your relatives are always fighting they're in miserable marriages like they like and you had a horrible childhood your cousins had a it's like why would you want to continue that it's safer being alone in your house right for me as the guy who does want kids right now I have kids you think of course it's the best thing ever my relationship is so sick and and the the biggest thing I always hear from people that messes up marriage is everything we had a kid and everything got like you turn the table upside down BAS that's the biggest thing is my relationship is so good communication is though it's going to make your
12:34 relationship even stronger you guys what i notic is people that say that it's because they already have a hard time communicating with their partner so when they throw like something in the mix it they it's like another hurdle but you guys are like so strong 100% of children of course I can't believe you're like not have a kid it's literally the best thing in life having children the best thing you like what's the logic of lowincome households around like let's say just California cuz that's what I know why do they have so many kids if they had bad childhoods and they have lower resources in a lot of other families I think it's impulsiveness they're just horny and they're not planning and having kids they're just like I'm just busting nuts because it feels great low income people don't have as much access to all the consumerism in
13:24 life they don't have to sacrifice $100 Sushi because they don't eat $100 sushi a grocery store Sushi much cheaper big brain you know having kids is the best thing highly recommend it I think it's the best thing you could possibly do and it'll change the way you see the world how you perceive the world what's important to you what's not important to you and the way you live your life and I think the idea that we normalize divorce amongst families is actually a big problem we throw that stat on 50% of all marriages end up in divorce it's almost like you say that to make it okay that to get a divorce coping but then remember that one St remember that one stat that said that like also people that get divorced tend to get divorced again so out of that 50% the same so the where it's kind of
14:14 like gray areia is it might be closer to 20 because the majority of that group it's like their second or third failed marriage so they're repetitive offenders in that divorce group but still it's still that made a like oh yeah the people that I know have even if it's 20 is% to me that's still a ████ high number cuz it used to be like nothing but you know sometimes people get into marriages and then they divorce and then they get 50% of the assets that's cool it's pretty sick I'm a fan of that there's there's only one time in life that a man maybe one that a man stands in front of God his friends his family everyone he knows and says I vow to do something it's actually the only time you do it any other time in life like back in the day you say I'm going to vow to do something and that family wronged
15:04 me and you dedicate your life to write that wrong yeah when you get married you say I vow to take care of this wife this woman through sickness and health and you vow in fromont of the entire world in front of your God in front of your family and so easily we just say well we don't really love each other anymore so we're going to get divorced we grew AP our thr the towel but the reality is like one day you might love your wife one day you might love her less one year you may love your wife one year later you might love her less it's a cycle the thing that the idea that love is the only thing that M matters in a relationship is actually wrong because you fall in and out of love all the time the most important thing is you've made a commitment and you vowed that you're going to take care of her you should stick to that and if you keep that as important then having kids becomes less risky it's because people live so much in their feelings of oh you know like I
15:56 we fell apart well if you gave it time you might actually get back together I and I I would also argue that for the people that had bad childhoods came from broken families who stay away from kids I actually think the best way to conquer like that skateboard fear isn't to stay away from the skateboard but to get back on the skateboard and nail the OE but to have your own kids and then to fix that family relationship that you ever had is probably the most healing thing you could ever do for yourself you have to break the cycle eventually we if we bring him back to like Asia though I think it's very transactional there so like marriage um for purpose there it's never had a history of doing it for love okay so family building the duty seems like why am I committing to this why and
16:48 people in the past never questioned it and now this generation is actually questioning the purpose of why before they were a bunch of lemmings that just there's a lot of doing things cuz you're told to do in Japan right so I think huh here too I think it's more so in a way that Americans won't even understand well there a romanticized thing when we're all growing up where like we watch Disney movies and stuff like that it's like we got to get married we got to have kids like that's like yeah that's propaganda in its own right but at least in the west there's a belief of this pure authentic two people coming together cuz they love each other yeah and then committing like That's A New Concept in Asia it's a completely new concept I'm I'm saying because up until my grandma's generation like it's all arranged right and you did it because it
17:39 was you just did it and your family told you to do it and it's PR growth the same way that the propaganda is pro growth yeah yeah and it bring families together it's not because you love this woman but it's because it's it's a great fit for the family MH cuz maybe they're textile people and you're a ████ retail store for clothes and then you build that family you actually as a man find love outside and it was acceptable to go and ████ fall in love with a gisha or whatever if you had the money for it it was like okay you could go and have a mistress and that's who your lover is but this is your wife you just make a kid with her D cold so that's the mentality right so then women are like why why the ████ would I want to do this and then it makes a lot of sense to me at least cuz and at least out here it's like there's a hope of like oh I get to
18:29 find my true love and then we get to build a family and we could have kids and we can like build this thing but out there there's like no real concept of that like it's it's just a weird kind of different world where um yeah I don't think there's a actual what do you call it like it's one of those Lost in Translation things where there's no similar example that you can say this is what it is Apples to Apples do they say vows during weddings out there or is it have western style weddings or is it just more responsibility quotes like I will take care of you you will have food you will I will not bring the g a home they have Christian style Weddings But it's like aesthetic you know what I mean it's a it's a atheist country like they're like they do Shintoism and they do Buddhism but it's not like you know
19:20 what I mean it's not it's not in the same it's it's it's like honestly religion does help birth rate quite a bit absolutely quite a bit but it's honestly ████ up that these guys raised their prices on their snacks honestly 10 Yen that's where we started home that's crazy oh yeah I thought we were doing a ████ yeah I to OTR cuz
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