Posted on 09/24/2017 9:17:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
China will not allow reunification without:
$40B trade deficit will help also. Another country raping the US consumer market and hiding behind the USA’s military.
"Korea also maintains a tariff quota system designed to stabilize domestic commodity markets. Customs duties can be adjusted every six months, within the limit of the basic rate, plus or minus 40 percent
Korea has a flat 10 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on all imports and domestically-manufactured goods. A special excise tax of 10-20 percent is also levied on the importation of certain luxury items and durable consumer goods. Tariffs and taxes must be paid in Korean Won within 15 days after goods have cleared Customs. ">
Their religion is also considered "Shia" but it is a secretive religion that is actually more Christian than Islamic and yet believes in reincarnation.
“Rocket Man” ......... or “Pocket Rocket”
South Korea will always get a bigger per-capita share of business in the largest Asian domestic market, China, compared to Japan. That is due to fail-to-die World War II sentiments, that both China and South Korea keep stoked up for their own domestic nationalist promotion agendas (as in “see, we are still standing up to Japan”), while the only thing Japan seeks is good trade.
I think reunification after the North fails - one way or another - will be very costly for South Korea, but it was also very costly for Germany, but they remain the largest and one of the best performing economies in Europe. South Korea will equally weather the storm of reunification and come out even stronger than before.
What do I think Japan should do? Short of becoming the 52nd U.S. state, with which Japanese are free to move to the other 51 states, and any U.S. citizen can move to Japan, greatly enhancing the U.S. domestic economy and gradually introducing broad changes in Japan, I have no recommendations for Japan.
Domestically Japan has a ton of internal social harmony, but a set in stone political and corporate structure that won’t budge, producing no new ideas on governance and mere repetition of what hasn’t worked for thirty years. They still export immensely, while the domestic economy remains on hold.
Maybe the Japanese just need to start having lots of kids.
“less people are of working age, while Japan is becoming less productive as a result. I mean, after all, less and fewer are interchangeable, aren’t they?”
Don’t try to read too much into this statement. Just because there are people living longer due to medical discoveries, and living beyond working age, doesn’t mean there are less people available to work in straight numbers. It just means the amount of people beyond working age are still in existence and are adding to the unworkable number thus making the lower age number smaller. The same amount of jobs are available, and filled. There’s just more older people so the economy has to somehow create wealth to support them.
It’s the same thing here. We have a certain amount of jobs to draw from until new ones are made. As the old retire and the youth step in, in theory only, the youth support the old. But in our country we have the problem two fold. Olders are living longer and illegals are taking our jobs by the millions. So we lose ground faster.
rwood
You missed it. There are less people only if people is a quantity like water or sand.But then that goes quite over the heads of public schoolers.
Water or sand cannot be increased beyond a certain point. There is only so much natural resources to make sand, i.e. rocks or dirt. We have had the same amount of moisture on this planet for millions of years in the form of water, ice, or what is soaked up by life forms. But that moisture is subtracted for the other moisture. Water and sand can appear to increase but that is the by product of something else being broken down. People birth people and the original people still stay, and maybe birth some more. According to UN Census figures, the number of births for 2005-2010 is expected to be 20.3 per year, per thousand people, averaged over the planet. The same figure for deaths from all causes is 8.5. So for each person that dies, 2.39 babies are born. And they don’t have to replace anything until their existence causes death. However, the same report stated that by 2050, the ratio drops to 1 to 1.34. And wars and sickness, and stupidity can change that with death changes.
And as far as I know, one piece of the original post was about the amounts of people at working age. So it is a quantity they are discussing, not a theological guess at amounts being able to find employment when there may not be so much. And that makes the working class pay for the other ones whether it is old and can’t work, or young but can’t as no jobs are available. Either way, the economy dips while the price of a loaf of bread goes up to cover the losses.
rwood
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