Thanks for watching! This is edited from a livestream I did last friday - they give me a a chance to go into a bit more detail compared to the video, and usually cover a couple more angles. Plus I love hearing your opinions too. I stream here on Fridays @ 7.15pm EST :) Also at 2:22 I said 500% increase, I meant 400%
@Fads love your videos!! You talk about issues that mainstream media wants to sweep under the rug and you do a great job of breaking down the data and staying apolitical. I hope you crack the UA-cam algorithm and get millions of views!
In Canada, we have assisted suicide, called MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying), and it will be for even feeling bad (depression) in a couple years, as planned. Capitalism loves it; it is a cheap efficient way, much cheaper than prison or pension or social assistance. People are less religious, less family expectations, and many head-canon their own spirituality, so there are no religious leaders with the power to scare us about our poor unfortunate souls; thank goodness for that. This is probably the future. Suicide booths for us broken cogs, no longer useful to the machine.
"That's a 500% increase." Um no, 5% to 15% is a 10% increase. I think it's natural for older people to do illegal stuff, I mean what are they going to do? Lock you up, give you the chair? The risk is worth it, and it won't really matter if they get caught. It's like that movie where the guy had two weeks left to live, so he became a Vigilante. Edit: attempt 4 posting the comment. How am I going to reword this? There is NOTHING Wrong with this comment!
Here are some fact that many people actually don't realize about Japan and it stems from Japan blatantly lying about its population crisis. Its so much worse than people stupidly realize. Its not 30% of their population being over 65 its over 80% of their population being over 60. Also they have so few births its not even a crisis its extinction. To understand the beginning of what is actually happening not a single birth in Japan happened between February 2023 and March of 2024. That is 13 months without a single birth. They have had less than 200 births this entire year. Back in 2010 the amount of elderly people who require diapers became more than 10 times that of how many babies were born. We are not talking about a major crisis its far worse. We are talking about the extinction of the Japanese people and the Japanese government is blatantly lying about its actual reality. When the government of Japan finally admits to the reality well its already too late to save Japan within the next 200 years. The actual horrific reality is the last pure blood Japanese person will be born within 50 years but in full reality the last pure blood Japanese person will be born before 2040 to 2050 at latest. The Japanese are going extinct and their government has already been laughing for well over 35 years and the population is not going to survive it just can't. Its population is dying off too quickly and the youth straight up are so overwhelmed by having to take care of 8 to 36 of its elderly family members they don't have time nor energy nor the will to date let alone have children of their own and they are so overworked they well don't give a crap about having children. The people of Japan are so overworked they can't survive. Mix all forms of reality together and you get a collapsed system in every way possible. Add also the fact that Japan has such racism rooted in their culture to where they literally believed brown hair or slightly not pitch black hair meant you were a demon from another world. The people encourage bullying so much that Japan has the highest suicide rate in children and adults to the point that the second highest doesn't even have 1% the amount of suicides. Basically in Japan you have a government that hates its people, a people that hate each other, so much over work that gets literally nothing done and its unpaid that the people are blatantly slaves, youth that gets raped and tortured and its 100% legal, adults who get raped and tortured and its 100% legal, laws that ban bathing at home so you have to bath inside giant bathtubs where thousands of other people use that same tub to bath in each day and the place is never actually cleaned, hatred towards people having fun, and basically shit lives everywhere you go and you get Japan a dying country.
I really appreciate you tackling such difficult topics! I believe Scandinavia has successfully implemented the normalization of prisons. Would love to see you analyze their prison system and perhaps make part 2 of this video to see how that would fit with the rest of the world. Again, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on UA-cam. I have been actively looking forward to every video on your channel and I am very happy to see such well-spoken and smart people sharing their knowledge on this platform.
“The life in prison isn’t necessarily good, it’s just better than what people are living on the outside” that statement had me mentally exhausted. This is so disappointing 😭
I think that's why there's a clear fallacy in his last point about "making prison as similar as possible to the outside world" in order to reduce recidivism. It kind of contradicts the first point about prison being a higher quality of life in Japanese jails than outside of Japanese jails. I think as population imbalance becomes the norm for most countries, those of us without networks of support need to start preparing for what the alternative to having tight familial bonds can be. I see a lot of people overly focused on getting unilateral social acceptance which is a fine side quest but the real issue is what the hell is everyone going to do?
Its true though for many men. Jail is pretty much like the military or even summer camp. You're not free but you also have very worries, amost none if its all short-term non-violent offenders. I just did a week...it was a pleasure..non phones, no youtube, no need to shop for groceries. I came out so refreshed and happy to be alive I'm thinking maybe I should go do another week!! ;P just kidding...i'll take a year or two off now.
People sort of gloss over how draconian the Japanese justice system is. I think they have like a 99% conviction rate for criminal cases or something like that. People always liked to talk about Japanese prisoner reform, but kind of ignore how insanely the deck is stacked is against you once you do get arrested. They're also very xenophobic, which is why right wing chuds like to throat Japan as a model enthnostate of a "pure untainted culture."
Societal values in Japan are different. Public order is highly regarded, which is a large part of why it is so safe. Stealing things in Japan is very out of the ordinary and disruptive. We need to stop imposing a western imperialist lens on these places or the western embrace of crime.
@@MakeSureYouCleanUp It was an older woman. She did that because she got cancer and cancer treatment was 6 months and the judge asked her if she had other means to get this treatment and she said no and the judge gave her 6 months sentence and she told him if she needs more treatment she will commit more crimes if necessary. It's actually a sad state of society and an example of failed states and societies.
@RemziCavdar Another one, eh? I was talking about James Verone in North Carolina and as I look, there was another in Oregon and another in Salt Lake. Def is the meta to get Healthcare in this country if you can't afford medical tourism.
There's a japanese show that depicts this. The main character is an elderly lady who tries to go to prison because her friend and roommate died and she couldn't afford the rent alone.
@@Microplasticindulger Says the guy who's name is "microplastics indulger" 💀 stop throwing stones from your glass house and being insufferable to strangers on the internet that are probably bots anyway.
@@Praisethesunsonjapan is in this state because the us imperialists destroyed their economy with the plaza accords and also sanctioned them for daring to trade with the soviets in the 80s they are also forcing japan to spend huge amounts of money on occupying us based
the Japanese govt is very conservative, and the companies are a nightmare to work for. there used to be economic dynasties called Zaibatsus that we tried to dissolve postwar, but they still kinda exist in the same way families like the Bushes do and they’re exactly as problematic (look up Prescott Bush btw, he’s Dubya’s granddad and was part of the Business Plot which is way worse than it sounds).
@@oscaranderson5719and do you think the Clintons or Bidens are problematic too. Or are aristocracies only bad if they have the wrong colour next to their name.
I hear from some older folks in my neighborhood, they would rather go to prison than be homeless in the winter. At least this way, they have a better chance to survive.
Just don’t ask the churches to help shelter the homeless. Literally was turned away in wintertime trying to help a homeless person find a place to stay. Funny how God finds ways not to help.
@@exodeus7959Nice when boomers have given huge amount of their earnings to their churches all their lives, and surprise! This is how churches pay them. Churches shouldn't have tax exemptions since they clearly aren't charities or anyway useful for the community.
Even in Norway, where prisons are known for being significantly better than other places, people in prison get more support than per example disabled citizens. There was a horrific crime many years ago where Anders Behring Breivik killed and permanently disabled several teens, children and young adults on Utøya. This vile criminal has gotten more social support and a better life than a majority of his victims. Several of them have been denied financial support due to their severe PTSD not being recognised as a serious enough condition. It angers me deeply. Why does there have to be such a significant lack of support for struggling people world wide?
"This vile criminal has gotten more social support and a better life than a majority of his victims.": True. Taxpayers paid for his food, his housing his playstation and xbox and even his university degree.
@@prodigal_southerner That's not exactly in capitalism, in capitalism criminals are treated very badly and prisons are business rather than part of justice system
I cared for a teen who used to get sent to juvenile detention on purpose. He was a really good kid from a hard home. We finally figured it out. His sister would get on drugs and he would end up caring for her 3 under 4s and an aunt with dementia. It was the only way for him to get away from their demands without feeling ashamed. If he was in juvy it wasn't his fault he couldn't help them... He was 15. 22 now... has 2 kids of his own and is a stay at home dad. His girlfriend works full time. He's our hero and many detention staff visit him. When his youngest kid goes to school he plans to work with in juvenile detention.
I once had an encounter with an elderly woman that stuck to me. I was a student, and when I got off work on a Saturday, an elderly woman was driving around with her bicicle collecting bottles (i live in germany so there is a deposit on plastic bottles). Since like i mentioned I was a student and was addicted to caffeine, I had a few empty energy-drink cans in my backpack that I drank throughout my shift. So I asked the woman if she wanted them. Her eyes lit up, and as she took them she said "Thank you, I can afford half a kilo of Potatoes with these"! And that was when i realized, even as a poor student I never had to think about how many bottles I needed to buy my next meal. It was just incredibly sad. I get a few dirty looks here and there when I place deposit-bottles beside the trash-bin now, but I think the people who depend on collecting them shouldnt have to scrape for scraps in the trash. There was actually a case a few years ago for an older woman literally being convicted for stealing trash out of a super-marked container. Like its a criminal offence to be hungry. Its really sad. I honestly plan to be done with my life once i get old. I live to the fullest as long as I can now. Because i dont see a comfortable retirement in my future.
It's why poor people tend to make bad decisions too. Our brains have limited capacity for decision-making - check out "decision fatigue". If you're constantly hungry, wondering where your next meal is coming from then you spend all your time thinking and strategizing toward that goal and have no mental capacity left for anything else really. The errors just compound from there :/
you "plan to be done with your life" ? what exactly does that mean? My Dad always joked, "If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself." People are living longer now. Better nutrition and hygiene, less stress in general.
Just learn simple machine physics concepts and read Robert Greene books on political theory. These things will help you at least survive finding work weather political work place to get and keep a job or labor work where you use leverage fulcrums to move heavy loads.
I was arrested in Japan a few years back. I saw this firsthand the baffling amount of elderly arrested. We weren't treated well, and ate poorly. The officers were constantly barking orders at the older inmates. I can't even begin to imagine what live must have been like to volunteer oneself to be sent to prison.
Kafkaesque bureaucracy and force of nature. Some people are fed up with the system of people they never seen, insurances that has hundreds of hurdles for you to claim, tax benefits that excludes you for random reason, and rules that change midway. So... instead of dying eating papers and ink, seeing people get up close and personal can be comforting. Even if they treated you harshly, they weren't the cowards that hide behind money and law. Some even think "I survived WW2 and economic crisis, I can just go to prison and not worry about job searching. Also I can work until I passed out and gets carried to bed before these police gets news written about elderly abuse." Some people willing to be treated harshly, because on the other hand Nature is merciless. On top of its Japan, their society are screwed up. "You are blessed to visit Japan, but cursed to live in it" as my colleague says.
@@epis8613 trespassing. Went to those tiny bars that ran out of people's homes, like a snack bar, fell asleep (probably a roofie) and they called the police saying I broke into their home. They dropped the charges after they were paid off.
@@pest174reading crap like this makes me glad I never got a taste for drinking and that I hate going to bars lol. I'd be fucking furious if I'd get drugged and these fucks call the cops on me and the Pigs even come and arrest me.
I'm afraid that it sounds like the Japanese "justice system" is FAR more corrupt than in the U.S.... ( although, fortunately, I haven't encountered that level of criminal justice involvement, so, I've never been to jail.) People must be treated Very poorly...😢😢😮
We spend so much money on the system that punishes people, rather than the one that rewards people for their lifetime of contributing to society. That's really messed up.
@@Little_Lepus welcome to capitalism. If the poor think they are entitled to the basic necessities of life. That would mean fewer things our economic overlords could artificially paywall access to for profit maximizing.
You realize that literally every single paycheck you earn has a big slice carved out of it specifically just for this system you're saying we're not putting any money into? You realize that if you're under about 50 you'll never see a single dime of that money because by the time you're old enough to retire these elderly people today will have completely drained it?
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat People who don't think it's capitalism have never owned capital. So all you can do is fall back on how you assume the systems that rule you actually function.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat it's not the elderly that have drained it. The government has been raiding those accounts and leaving nothing but I.O.U.'s for WELL over 4 decades.
Those people who have families but their elders are still lonely and unsupported, are probably because their families have to work or study relentelessly to keep their head above water. We make life so hard for 90% of us, and so so easy for 10% of us.
Moreover growing old doesn't mean you are good it usually signals to the contrary. The lady that had money in her pocket and her son has been insisting she should be interned in a mental hospital. That doesn't sound like poverty or abandonment, that sounds like the type of parent that treated you horribly and even though as an adult you still do good by them, you pay for their stuff, you allow them to choose whether to be interned or not, you continue supporting after they have come out of jail at keast once and offer them the help they need (psych wards are mad expensive idk how he is going to pay it in this economy and again he didn't force her, he has been insisting that is the care she needs and she just refuses) they will still refuse because they just are bad people. She is bad mouthing a son that has probably given her far more than I will ever be able to give my parents, speaking about putting him through university as if he isn't actively trying to care for her and offering something even more permanent and expensive that is psychiatric care. He even told her to get interned and take life easy but she just refused and preferred to go to be mistreated in prison instead, as if it was much different from a psych ward. It makes no sense to me.
Why are you assuming so much about this woman and her son? For all you know her son just wants to get rid of her. Why take such a negative view of these people with literally 0 evidence? Chill
@@MegaGraceiscool She said all that information herself. If the son wanted to get rid of her he could have gotten her forcefully interned the first time she came out of jail. Specially as a senior citizen who is unstable enough to believe jail is a place you just go to "be myself" and denies she is mentally ill whilst in the same breath saying she stole because of her anxiety. Kleptomania is still a mental illness and so is anxiety bad enough that it can somehow change your inner values and perspectives on life. She needs psychiatric care regardless of how you look at it. Instead she decided to go to jail, repeatedly. (For context I spent a week of my life in a psych ward for a life exit attempt, it is not fun because it is basically three steps away from being jail, i don't know why anyone would choose to go from the pan to the fire).
Fun fact it costs $132,860 to keep one prisoner for a year in the state of California. The state of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations, has 34 adult prisons build to hold 85,083 people, lets just give them the benefit of the doubt that this is the exact amount of people currently imprisoned. That means we are spending $11,304,127,380 on prisons... really makes you wonder why there is even a housing crisis.
The average cast to imprison someone in America is about $31,000 per year. However, you may be crossing jail in prison. Jail is more expensive than prison in most states. Anyway, both are much more expensive than public housing and basic food stamps.
Also, slavery is legal when people are imprisoned in the US. I would hazard a guess that the private prisons are raking it in. No wonder the US has such a high rate of imprisonment
That’s why they are sold to work. And they get little rewards for it. Fight State crippling fire, get 1 dollar a day. Kamala Harris knows all about this.
That was almost me 😢 I had no help, was unpaid, and she was 300lbs and incontinent. It had been going on for 10 years at that point, with family threatening me with homelessness and violence if I didn't continue indefinitely. I was genuinely considering this as an option for myself, and unaliving myself was also on the table, too. D3ath genuinely sounded better than changing diapers and doing wheelchair transfers to and from the toilet while being screamed at 24/7. I'm doing better now, but I miss my Grandma a lot 😢
Loitering laws might just make a huge comeback. We are at the point where everyday people are going to be liquidated which means incarnation, forced labor and mass extermination.
I often think of the Who Do You Think You Are ? (UK) episode featuring Black Adder's Tony Robinson. When they got back to the generation of his great-grandparents, the point was made that going into the parish workhouse was the solution for the working poor. About 25% of British society reaching the age of 62 or so did that. So they'd pass their elder years picking oakum (hemp fibres) from old ropes to recycle as caulking for ships. When the timbers of wooden watercraft started to change shape and lose water-tightness, as much hemp fibre as possible would be jammed in the gaps and then tarred over. Pretty sad, but the lack of social services and absence of anything like an old age pension meant that work-houses were de facto the only place to go once people were no longer able to support themselves with waged labour.
Wow. Yeah. This is kind of a wake-up call (and one I needed, thanks mate). I went into this video expecting 'entitled Karens', not sad lonely old folks whose lives suck so bad that prison is better. I needed the reminder that the real struggle isn't between *generations,* but *classes.*
It's both though... Boomers have shown the greatest crime rates at every rung of the social ladder for their whole lives, and it's only continuing into their old age. Check out the lead-crime hypothesis. The fact that the most powerful people of the most criminal generation also victimizes their own doesn't negate that it was them doing it.
This intergenerational clash has been manufactured in the last decade or so - when those at the top pit those of us at the bottom against one another we forget that they're the ones pulling the strings
Well your politicians keep dehumanising and stigmatising people who need help or ask for help calling women especially single mother on welfare "welfare queens" or homeless people bums who just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and the people keep falling for it
After working as a care worker in some awful elderly care homes with very corrupt workers, I honestly feel like I'd receive better care in prison than I would in a home. I live in the UK and the state of things is awful. I used to sell care home packages too. £2000 *a week* on the average around London.
I know elderly people who ran the numbers and realized they could either go to an assisted living facility or simply live on a cruise ship for the same amount of money. They had the money, so they chose the cruise ship. But a lot of people don't have the money for that
This is a thing in the US too. I read a story a few years ago about an elderly man who robbed a bank but insisted on only taking $1200 and left a note with the banker for where police could find him. He was in a bar, still had the money and had no intention of keeping it. We find out later he was recently widowed and evicted and only stole enough to go to prison for 3 months which would cover him through the winter. I'm not sure if this particular story was true, but there are many others like it that are true.
Kinda sounds like it would just be better to have state funded nursing homes, but that's one of those solutions that sounds like it makes too much sense 🤷♀️
Thats probably something both needed, and not actually enough resources for. Finding enough workers for those nursing homes could be a challenge, even harder if you want qualified good and reliable workers. So is funding it economically if the economy in general is failing.
@@zee9709 it's almost like.. the prisons are already functioning as that.. who pays for the prison? I'm literally just advocating for converting some prisons into nursing homes. It wouldn't be that hard.
I KNEW IT!! I CALLED IT!! I always said if times kept getting tough, prisons will become safe havens simply because there will be a roof over your head, food on your plate and you will not be alone! fast forward 3 years and what do you know, prisons are becoming homeless shelters! This is a sad thing to be right about, but it also shows just how far the middle class has fallen worldwide. greed is starting to take over...
That was obvious, being homeless vs. free bed, shower, food, some company... Sure when you're homeless you have all the "freedom", you can go and beg for money wherever you want...
Instead of designing everything to drive a profit, perhaps we should design our countries to build and sustain long term real (not monetary) wealth (having things of quality and endurance) for the citizens. Their existing pensions would go further if not for overpriced housing and a dearth of medical care providers.
@masync183 The concept originally was that the wealth is in production, not metal or paper. We tax working and give investors breaks. Our government is obviously rouge and it's wild to watch and listen to people talk about it. I bought the wealth of nations from my high school at a used bookstore. Very sad.
I worked in a jail for awhile, about twenty years ago, and we had homeless people who would get arrested every year in the winter time, not just to get out of the weather, but to get the free dental care. What a society we live in. I hesitate to call us civilized.
@@clairemercer3099 makes sense. Canada is such a small nation with no natural resources to construct houses. It's not like Canada of all places could build mass public housing inside of 2 years. If they could, that would be communism.
The subways are an issue too in NYC. With no state mental health institutions(President Regan shut them down in the 1980s)certain areas all over the city from the Bronx to Manhattan are flooded with mentally distressed and sometimes violent homeless people. Some of them from Central America, Mexico and Venezuela, not just Americans.
In Europe it's libraries and universities, which is bad because there already aren't enough spaces for young people (even bars are way too expensive now and you are forced to consume) and students (of all ages). Now homeless people who just wanna sleep without freezing to death are using multiple chairs each, tables and the floor just to get some sleep, eat or use the free internet for entertainment. Very few if any actually use it to try to find a job or a room in a shared apartment.
I've literally been considering this. I'm from the UK, nearing 40, have 0 pension saved up, no house, no kids, stuck with some severe mh issues. I'm already struggling with working part time, and live with my mother. When she eventually goes, I won't have anything left and definitely won't be able to afford basic costs of living. I think back to the stories a cop friend used to tell me of how they'd 'arrest' homeless people on christmas eve to give them a warm cell and free food for a few days over Christmas, and I think hey, prisons not great, but it can't be any worse than the nothing I'll have outside of it. At least I'd have people around me and know where my next meal is. I don't want to be one of those thousands of old folk in the UK with their water and heating cut off, barely able to feed themselves.
The prison was built millennia ago, it only grows more sophisticated as technology advances and scientists discover new psychological methods of controlling us that the capitalists use to their advantage, as they do everything else heh
2:58 This often cited statistic is frequently misunderstood. Prosecutors in Japan drop 50% of the cases they're given; they only pursue cases they know for sure will get a conviction. America's conviction rate is 99.8% if measured by the same conditions.
This is also similar to how many lawyers and cancer-care centers and other businesses with a "reputation for success" work in the US as well. It's easy to succeed when you only try to succeed with easy cases.
I think the focus is too much on the money and not on the social environment. Fads said "I can't help wonder if you just gave them the [prison budget] money, if they would've committed the crimes." But I think most of the Japanese women seemed to be having a problem with loneliness and anxiety more than financial strain. I'm 35 and I already feel like I can empathize with my geriatric neighbor when she tells me she can't stand being so lonely anymore.
@@HighNoone I try to. It's hard though because every time I go over there she keeps me for hours. When our power went out I stayed at her condo keeping her company till 1am. Also, I'm a 35 year old man though, I want a family to take care of, I want babies, not someone else's aging mother to comfort after she cut ties with everyone in her life.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat I don't believe you. I think you're actually just twelve cats in a trenchcoat and you secretly love being with an elderly woman. Just admit that she's feeding you!
The problem people forget is that, whatever the mythology around prison, prison is more about the rest of society rather than about the prisoner themselves. Prison is a way for the rest of society hiding away problems that they don't want to think about rather than actually making a change of any kind to the prisoner themselves.
its appreciate some of the nordic prisons, like the ones in iceland. sure, you can try and run away... but why would you? youre just gonna freeze to death regardless if you do, so 😂😂😂 and they are nicer than some hotels ive been to, tell u what
I just want to say, if i decide to retire to prison, it ain't just going to be shoplifting that i go in for. I'm robbing a bank and trying to get away with it.
I don't know about in Japan, but in the US it's the older generations that voted and keep voting for policies to slash social security nets, even the ones of which they are the ones who most use and benefit from, and that make it easier for the wealthy and powerful to continue funneling all the wealth and resources from the average person. They were able to live good in their youth, voting for short term gratification and screwing the future that they probably didn't imagine they would also be living in. They thought that voting in favor of the rich would benefit them because they believed someday that would be them, not understanding that the policies and ideals they voted for were exponentially increasing economic disparity actually making it less likely that they would ever be "rich".
And people still want to make us live to be over 150 years old on average with absolutely no other consideration for what that would entail or look like
@mirroredvoid8394that’s not how it works. Extending your life doesn’t push back biological milestones like the point at which your cells are dying faster than they can replicate, or the point at which your cease to generate new neurons, it just extends the period of time after them
This is been a growing trend for quite some time. The media refuses to talk much about it, but there have been a lot more older folks committing crimes in the US just to get healthcare. Two cases in recent years of bank robbery in my region where the specifically said this was their reason.
0:40 this is the case with my father too. He couldn’t take not being called a CEO anymore and began beating my family harder and harder for decades since losing his job. I asked so many experts to help him for all of us. Many say heavy alcoholism from his work and his asocial nature made him “more prone to acting out and abusing people.” Poor lad 😢 hope he finds peace in his remaining years. It’s even more f’ed up that this mental disease has fully transferred to my sibling. My dad and he don’t take of themselves, lost interest in 99% of what they loved in life, and really let their hygiene/health go. Both are overweight, pre-diabetic, and still chugging soda when I tell them Alzheimer’s is practically Type 3 Diabetes in the medical sector.
I think the main failure is cultural. Our societies lost the social cohesion and unity to keep up the village and extended family as a functional social structure. Nowadays it is usual to move far away from your origin to settle, get a job and start a new life. We also have divergent culture and belief systems that makes it harder to understand and connect with others. There is no longer one big community, but many small and disconnected ones. We also usually enable narcissistic behavior in our culture. That leads to lots of ignored and downplayed suffering and finally to lots of bitterness and estrangement. Neglect, exploitation and abuse are never moral, and never lead to anything good, be it in professional or personal relationships. It can destroy friendships and families from within. On a technical level we are well connected. But on a cultural and emotional level that is sadly not the norm anymore. The government and its social programs can and should be improved. But they are the external, materialistic attempt of a fix for something that is an inner, cultural failure. It is still a good thing social program are there. They provide temporary relief, but not a permanent solution. We are so focused on material plenty that we forgot about human connection. Both are important.
This is all correct, but it's easy enough to leave it at the victimized people were victimized by the people who did the victimizing. But why did so many of the generation do the victimizing? The lead-crime hypothesis posits an actual logical physio-chemical cause which is highly plausible.
Working retail you find older people steal just as much if not more than teenagers. Now I know it’s a win win for them, new earrings they couldn’t afford or hot meals for a month.
Yes, that was a worry for me... I get ocular migraines and stuff like that can be a trigger. At first I worried my ancient monitor was about to go out. Otherwise, love the presentation style.
Disagree. Nuclear family isn't equivalent to getting farther from relatives. In Asia, many people live in nuclear family structure but they take care of parents and relatives in need
@@Glacier7474They do, but the nuclear family has made this a terribly stressful system. In China, for instance, one child, usually the oldest son, is responsible by law for the care of their parents *and* grandparents. They are also most likely a single child and so carry that responsibility completely alone. In the event where the son marries someone who is also a single child, which is very likely, they carry effectively 12 people's welfare on their backs alone. And this goes for a lot of families -- the elder homes are already packed. The nuclear family is founded on the idea that there will always be someone other than your child to take care of you. Well, if everyone thinks like that, then there statistically just won't be. That's what's happening now.
It only happened because people and the powers that be said a market economy ought to be the way the whole world works. Now people have no choice but to split up as adults to seek their fortunes in various cities based on what jobs they could get. The nuclear family and distance from relatives is merely a symptom, not the cause.
This video got me thinking on what you said about how it was costing the system more to house them in prison than if they had just paid more into social systems to keep them comfortable and improve their quality of life outside of jail. This reminds me a lot of the healthcare system in America, especially, for those with lower income that have medicare/medicaid. These state or federally funded programs are by design super wasteful and patient treatment/care is an afterthought to profit gains. All these big healthplans that are funded by medicaid and medicare incentivize the companies most doctors have contracts with to extend treatments or have patients meet A LOT of pre-requesites to even get obvious treatment needs met. Where often, you see gaps in care where patients will go to hospital to get the care they need because it takes too many appointments to go through the proper chain. Got a broken arm that needs a cast? Well take that referral from the hospital to your primary care doctor who will then ask you to get an xray to confirm the break then refer you to an orthapedic who will cast your arm. This was already confirmed you had a break when you went to hospital.. but now the system artifically was able to get more taxpayer money flowing into the pockets of the rich ceo's of the healthplans and they kick back extra money to the doctors and pharmacies that play along. I worked in insurance in america for 3 years and god it is brutal for those with low income funded programs like medicaid/medicare. They really jerk these patients around without a care all for profit.
Excellent and fascinating presentation! It brings up numerous huge social issues and dilemmas. Youre good at putting the information in context. Thank you for your work.
Yeah, well, the average pension in my country is between 1.600 and 1.900 euros per month, depending on which statistic one chooses to believe. The average monthly cost for a nursing home is between 1.800 and 2.200 euros per month again, depending on region and statistic. Costs for nursing homes include the stay in the nursing home only, not any of the other costs of living/aging, that comes on top. Staying in prison isn't just free, you actively earn some money per day doing small jobs (like packaging stuff etc) plus your pension doesn't get canceled. Hmmmm, I wonder how high elderly crime rates are in my country because that kind of statistic is somehow not that easy to access. 🤔
Important sidenote: not all prisons give opportunities for inmates to earn money, and those that do pay very little (160 - 200 euros per month but still better than nothing, I guess...)
"my country is between 1.600 and 1.900 euros per month": And you guys are the wealthy ones. My parents only get half of that, but the cost for nursing homes is the same.
I was taught the same, that if a person doesn't go to the cops, it is legal. The community had more authority than the police, and the police worked for the community and you had a constitutional right to privacy. If nobody called the cops then the cops didn't have a right to know. The cops have escaped their leashes since then and now many police officers are criminals.
I was oblivious to this issue. Thank you for this essay. Excellent work. The 3.2 million yen annual cost per prisoner, which you pointed out was twice the maximum welfare benefit, is about $22,000. Only three U.S. states, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, spend less than $30,000 per inmate per year. Most spend far more, with 11 states at over $100,000 per year. And a year in jail (not prison, obviously) in New York City costs ~ $550,000! At least when it comes to property crimes, I’m very confident most offenders would happily forego all criminal activity in exchange for a $100,000 salary…NYC should just pay them to stay home (of course it’s not that simple…or is it?) You’re right to call the plight of those elderly Japanese inmates “heartbreaking.” It’s bloody awful to think of that woman not wanting to even go home, but with no where else to go.
The problem with the proposed solution of "Look into what your politicians and leaders are doing to support communities in your area" is that wealth is disproportionately focused in a small number of communities, and the people concentrating that wealth also hoard political and economic influence on a grand scale. It's not the boomers, it's the rich boomers who run the world, and will do anything to stay on top.
I had to stop part way. Idk if I’ll be able to finish the video. Imagining someone like my grandma thinking/knowing she’s better off in jail than the outside because she’s got no support outside has got me in tears.
a year and a half ago, my 60+ uncle attacked me with a knife and nearly stabbed me to death. I had a collapsed lung, my right hand was fully impaled by the blade, i was slashed across my left eye. I spent a week in the hospital, and my hand is still healing. I've lost feeling in two fingers. The worst part is i think he's probably happier in jail than he ever was here in the house.
New subscriber I love how kind heartedly you approach these issues I haven't heard a single person my age advocate for empathy towards boomers and it was refreshing to hear it too
The comments on this video are really disturbing. Just because people aren't capable of working, or contributing to society in a way that you (the commenters) believe is useful, doesn't mean that they deserve to die.
There's more than one cause for this situation. On one hand, there are older people who can't keep up with the increase in housing costs. But there's also older people who have always been mean. Now they're retired. And there's no boss telling them to behave. -My dad's friend is like this. Always bullied his younger brother. To the point where he still doesn't talk to him this day. And he was also arrested as a teenager for burglary.
Exactly. I would like to understand how much of this crime (in the US) is violent crime or assault, versus how much are things like theft or shoplifting.
Homeless people have been doing this, especially during winter, for ages. Nothing new under the sun. Prison can be a step up for people so crime has no downside.
Stealing from a corporation is a victimless crime so I can see why someone would choose that if they just want an easy trip to jail without causing any real harm.
Just looking at the title I know it’s because boomers are also the people at highest risk of becoming homeless because they’re too old to work and social security doesn’t cover the cost of living anymore. So even though ~they~ forced us all to play along and “get a job”, and al voted for politicians who like to cut funding for social services that keep people out of poverty, there’s zero guarantee that just any ol’ job will net you enough money to prevent slipping into poverty/homelessness. The boomers are unfortunately learning this the hard way and turning to crime (the way many often do) to avoid poverty. Which is why it’s so frustrating when Black people are treated as if crime is our nature instead of a difficult choice thrust upon you by your circumstances.
I work Loss Prevention and noticed shoplifters are getting older. We caught 3 of them just last week and at locations we don't normally have problems. It's disheartening because I can figure rhat inflation is outstripping social security and benefits. Being on a fixed income, these people might be forced to steal. They are going after produce and meat, not high value stuff. It's sad, more than anything else
My mom was a stay at home mom (never worked with no retirement or savings) she expects my dad to support her forever and then she'll expect me to do it, going to jail for a petty crime is exactly the kind of vindictive con move she would pull; lamenting how _"her family drove her to crime"._ All the while preaching from a self righteous soap box that precipitates her recidivism.
@@mE-zx7ptIt aint nearly as soul crushing as the corpo, bureaucracy hell that most people have to sludge through on a day to day. Oh no, you have to clean the living space of the people you love and cook meals for them. So hard.
I worked with an 80-year-old. ,man, once. I asked him how he was doing. He said, " Great, I woke up this morning." As we get older, having a place that will always take care of you must, especially for some, be a true joy.
In such a dire sociological situation, where the elderly exceed the young significantly, there are no good choices. You either enslave the young in order to care for the elderly, condemning today's young to become disenfranchised elderly themselves later, as they won't afford kids when they have to care for, pay for and entertain the elderly; OR, you chose to sacrifice (in terms of financial allocation) today's elderly (a horrible and inhumane choice), by giving priority to the current and future generations. However, besides the moral problem, there is also the numerical one. Many old people vote to keep their priority status, as they feel entitled to retirement after a lifetime of hard work. Absolutely no good choices...
There’s something to be said about retirement as a whole… it’s becoming an increasingly debated concept from our politicians, creating a unique set of circumstances for younger generations where the elderly they’ll be expected to care for are in a better position at the end of their life than younger people are in their prime. How is that inspiring? What are we even working for if our efforts aren’t for anything worthwhile?
😮 Wow! This is so disturbing! So sad! I take care of my elderly Mom and what I noticed amongst people my age that some people do not want to take care of their elderly family members. Even if the family members were good to them. 😮
Excellently done! Fascinating topic. Presented well. You are very intelligent. Suggested: a room divider scene placed behind you. Keep up the good work.
As someone whos been to Japan, (I lived there for a bit for a student exchange program and I am returning soon) Japan is living in the future in some ways. Technology wise, public transport wise, and in some other ways it’s like 50 years in the future. But in many ways it’s 50 years in the past at the exact same time. Many of the people are the kindest people I’ve ever met though, don’t judge them too harshly. Also fish roe is usually fish eggs.
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."-Emma Goldman Vote with your pitchforks. Socialism wont happen on its own when the rich keep getting richer.
This is what happens when a large, old population runs out of young people to exploit. The birth rate collapsed so there aren't enough workers. Expanding welfare just means even longer hours and harsher taxes on the remaining young people who already can't afford the only long-term solution, which is to have children
I did the math, 21600 to 38000 in expenses alone to comfortably raise a kid per year where I live. And that’s with saving on childcare costs and not having to upsize to house one.
It doesn’t surprise me at all. I had an elderly neighbor living beneath me. Note that I’m only 6 years younger. But, she decided to retire early and, my impression was that she had no Plan B. No financial or medical preparedness. She became ill and her family, some of whom appeared to live in-state (this is the US), would not help her. She AND them, wanted me to become her free caregiver. I said no. I was already dealing with a narcissistically abusive family, I was trying to maintain no contact with. I couldn’t take on her family issues also. This woman was also married to a man, who was in prison, for the double murder of a woman and her child. So, I really didn’t want any parts of that. She tried to smear and coerce me, into doing what she wanted. It seemed that, as far as she was concerned, I was the maid, living in her attic, rather than the tenant, who’d lived there, for decades long before her. She was found dead of pneumonia a year ago, this week, after several healthcare issues. She was only 63. A person might ask, “Why didn’t you help her!” I didn’t as the burden would’ve not only been too great. But, because she showed entitlement to my life, even asking if I intended to buy a newer car. I guess, for running around taking her places, including maybe 75+ miles, to see her husband and to do anything else she wanted. She seemed to feel she was in charge and would address me as “girl”. I think her ultimate plan was to give up her apartment, move into mine and make a complete disaster if things. Even adopted dogs she intended for me to care for, while I have cats. You really cannot help everyone, without undoing yourself. She was actually the 2nd neighbor, who “decided” I’d be caring for her, all to be disappointed. I, now have, a new neighbor, in the apartment beneath me and, although her mother lives with her, they think I should be their child’s nanny, although I’ve shown absolute disinterest. But, the woman who died? She died just weeks before she was about to be evicted. I really felt bad. I’ve not known what it’s like to be in her shoes. But I can empathize. Now that I no longer have family, except for 1 dying relative, I am heading down the same path, with the exception of the fact that I still work and just inherited a mortgage free home. I am not fooled by it though. It’s damaged and it’s worth today, might not be it’s worth tomorrow. I may become a person, trying to get into jail, to not freeze to death or be predated.
I’m glad you pointed out the increasing percentage of older people- there’s so many problems the entire world will be facing as birth rates are below replacement, and the loneliness, poverty, and abandonment of the elderly are just one section of the issue. Japan is just hitting these first but we’re all going to have to worry about it soon- how to house, feed, socialize and care for an increasingly large dependent population with a shrinking workforce and taxpayer population (social welfare is great- but who will pay for it if there’s fewer taxpayers each year and more people withdrawing social security funds? Who will staff nursing homes and hospitals as patient numbers only increase and people live longer?) I think it’s important of course to make having children as easy as possible for those who want it- better childcare for working parents, parental leave, education improvements, financial support, etc. but some people are never going to want kids and now that that’s more of a socially acceptable and feasible option (as it should be!) the trend is never going to reverse. I don’t ever want kids myself but as my parents retire and I can see a not-too-distant future where I’m caring for them it makes me wonder, in turn, who will be there to care for me?
I think everyone goes on their own arc of being lied to and coping with what they were told and what life is actually like. We want to believe right now is the best time to be alive, it would be sad to wish to be born at another time. So we tell ourselves we are the most civilized, the most advanced, the brightest and the best we've ever been as a species. We assume that the people of the past weren't as smart, were more barbaric and were mere stepping stones to get us where we are now. But slowly these assumptions come undone, we realize that we really haven't made that much cultural progress towards a better world. We only have more stuff. In our initial dives into realizing the wrongs of the world we start despairing that maybe this is the worst time to be alive, there was a better golden time... Sometime? When I was younger and cared for, when I was less stressed, before I knew what I know now. We get more and more distraught about everything wrong for a while. But eventually, these thought will pass and you will realize that the world is not simply going through phases of utopias and dystopias. It is a whole world, with over 7 billion people living a very different day, everyday. It is completely up to you what path you want to take, and whether you are going to improve or ruin other's lives.
I don't know if I can properly express how good at this you are, this is the first video of yours I've ever seen. I learned so much about this subject just now that I'm kind of sitting here a bit stunned. I have never heard of this aside from the homeless in the US doing it, and people who have been in prison here not knowing what to do when they get out and trying to go back. I'm instantly subscribing to your channel, you were beyond clear, are a joy (even with such a grim and sad subject) to listen to that I wish you were a teacher when I was in school. Thank you, and I hope that somehow this video you made gets back to Japan, I have a really good idea of what they would think and in response, do. I don't think they will be pleased with themselves, Japan has a deep need to prevent this sort of thing as it brings scrutiny on a shortcoming that they are quite capable of fixing. The Japanese people I know would say "this is a shame and a dishonor" (I'm paraphrasing) and promptly set about trying to fix the situation if it existed in their family. And perhaps beyond. It's interesting though that it is perhaps the upbringing of the younger generations that could really be leading to this, being told one needs to work ones self nearly to death leads to them having no time at all to spend with the very people that told them to do so. Sort of a vicious circle.
Thank you for having these conversations Fads. My mum died this year in the US and my dad is still figuring out how to live without her. He has money, but my brother is very distraught by not getting her attention anymore. I seriously appreciate this so much. We need. To talk about these things more.
I feel bad but at the same time the elderly are a huge voting block around the world they had plenty of time to vote for genuine politicians that cold have done something the past 80 years but they didn't and most voted with emotion and not facts and they still are, Brexit is a good example of that.
Quite baffling that politicians can't understand the impact of their policies, or is it by design? To take wealth away and deprive people of ownership, responsibility, and freedom.. I have been thinking of this solution myself, and wondered why elders are not talking themselves out of big cities to keep smaller towns alive while getting a better lifestyle.. ☯️
They don’t care because the short term benefit is all that matters. These are the same people who will downsize/gut a thriving business of the workers and qualities that motivate customers to SHOP THERE in order to “record a profit this quarter”, without thought to how the business will be able to continue being profitable the next quarter, after the service suddenly sucks and the customer base has no reason to use their product
Also moving out of a city is not going to help people because cities are usually the only place you can survive without being car dependent. Small towns and suburbs are COMPLETELY car dependent and owning/maintaining a car is increasingly expensive. Aging populations literally NEED public transportation to get around safely and it’s not something they have access to in most places.
You know, in the USA I would believe (only on state side with the prison industrial complex l), that going to jail is definitely somewhere you wouldn’t want to go, but I guess I’m wrong.
Thanks for sharing this. I am 52, now and I am absolutely terrified of what might life might be like in 20 years. But this is a sad indictment of any society. We have a major problem here at the bottom of the ladder, starting out. As our government favors penalizing welfare users and also, stripping our Public Services staff (Ironically Welfare Workers, being the hardest hit). To fund its own pet projects. In our country is all based on how much land you own. If we get there I am concerned how many of our youth have a criminal record these days and have also been recidivists. One day, these people will be in charge of my future, or we just won't have them. That in itself is hugely concerning. This is not just a population problem, but one of the last 40 years, of the re-distribution of wealth, to a minority. Whilst they contribute the least. The Social Contract worked in theory, but as often the case, allowing people to have unnecessary input and favored outcomes. We end up where we are today. Inflation occurs in all parts of our society, not just the ones our treasury, uses to manipulate everything else. This is a natural by-product of overproduction. Whether we ever see, culling in the human population. Will really come down to those that lead. In saying that the Darwin Awards are great evidence, that we are pretty good at knocking ourselves off. It is hard as an individual, to think of the impacts of this dire state of affairs, without finding the need to bury our heads in the sand and hope for the best. :):( Some of our youth, never get on their feet and just continue to incur debt. We have re-introduced our 90-day law. That basically allows an employer to dismiss you without recourse. As you can imagine, it is very easy to abuse this legislation and it had to be reversed last time. Add in the fact, that you just about now have to be a rocket scientist to work in the supermarket, it is just a huge waste of resources to have an education system, if our brightest have to leave, to pay off their debt. Whilst we bring in more people than our country can sustain as our infrastructure needs were ignored, huge profits have been siphoned off by those and charged to overseas investors. I think we are getting closer to 'Corptocracy' every day. It is like everything they new in the 1930's, was wrong to do, to make Equity occur, has been ignored and we have continued to repeat the mistakes of the past and allow our rights to be removed. :( I am not saying everything is bad, but it could have been a lot better, had we not returned to the Mantras of Robber Barrons.
Thanks for watching! This is edited from a livestream I did last friday - they give me a a chance to go into a bit more detail compared to the video, and usually cover a couple more angles. Plus I love hearing your opinions too.
I stream here on Fridays @ 7.15pm EST :)
Also at 2:22 I said 500% increase, I meant 400%
@Fads love your videos!! You talk about issues that mainstream media wants to sweep under the rug and you do a great job of breaking down the data and staying apolitical. I hope you crack the UA-cam algorithm and get millions of views!
In Canada, we have assisted suicide, called MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying), and it will be for even feeling bad (depression) in a couple years, as planned. Capitalism loves it; it is a cheap efficient way, much cheaper than prison or pension or social assistance. People are less religious, less family expectations, and many head-canon their own spirituality, so there are no religious leaders with the power to scare us about our poor unfortunate souls; thank goodness for that. This is probably the future. Suicide booths for us broken cogs, no longer useful to the machine.
"That's a 500% increase." Um no, 5% to 15% is a 10% increase. I think it's natural for older people to do illegal stuff, I mean what are they going to do? Lock you up, give you the chair? The risk is worth it, and it won't really matter if they get caught. It's like that movie where the guy had two weeks left to live, so he became a Vigilante. Edit: attempt 4 posting the comment. How am I going to reword this? There is NOTHING Wrong with this comment!
Here are some fact that many people actually don't realize about Japan and it stems from Japan blatantly lying about its population crisis. Its so much worse than people stupidly realize. Its not 30% of their population being over 65 its over 80% of their population being over 60. Also they have so few births its not even a crisis its extinction. To understand the beginning of what is actually happening not a single birth in Japan happened between February 2023 and March of 2024. That is 13 months without a single birth. They have had less than 200 births this entire year. Back in 2010 the amount of elderly people who require diapers became more than 10 times that of how many babies were born. We are not talking about a major crisis its far worse. We are talking about the extinction of the Japanese people and the Japanese government is blatantly lying about its actual reality. When the government of Japan finally admits to the reality well its already too late to save Japan within the next 200 years. The actual horrific reality is the last pure blood Japanese person will be born within 50 years but in full reality the last pure blood Japanese person will be born before 2040 to 2050 at latest. The Japanese are going extinct and their government has already been laughing for well over 35 years and the population is not going to survive it just can't. Its population is dying off too quickly and the youth straight up are so overwhelmed by having to take care of 8 to 36 of its elderly family members they don't have time nor energy nor the will to date let alone have children of their own and they are so overworked they well don't give a crap about having children. The people of Japan are so overworked they can't survive. Mix all forms of reality together and you get a collapsed system in every way possible. Add also the fact that Japan has such racism rooted in their culture to where they literally believed brown hair or slightly not pitch black hair meant you were a demon from another world. The people encourage bullying so much that Japan has the highest suicide rate in children and adults to the point that the second highest doesn't even have 1% the amount of suicides. Basically in Japan you have a government that hates its people, a people that hate each other, so much over work that gets literally nothing done and its unpaid that the people are blatantly slaves, youth that gets raped and tortured and its 100% legal, adults who get raped and tortured and its 100% legal, laws that ban bathing at home so you have to bath inside giant bathtubs where thousands of other people use that same tub to bath in each day and the place is never actually cleaned, hatred towards people having fun, and basically shit lives everywhere you go and you get Japan a dying country.
I really appreciate you tackling such difficult topics! I believe Scandinavia has successfully implemented the normalization of prisons. Would love to see you analyze their prison system and perhaps make part 2 of this video to see how that would fit with the rest of the world.
Again, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on UA-cam. I have been actively looking forward to every video on your channel and I am very happy to see such well-spoken and smart people sharing their knowledge on this platform.
“The life in prison isn’t necessarily good, it’s just better than what people are living on the outside” that statement had me mentally exhausted. This is so disappointing 😭
When the human experience is just… mid
to be fair, Japan prison does beter than most prison on other country
I think that's why there's a clear fallacy in his last point about "making prison as similar as possible to the outside world" in order to reduce recidivism. It kind of contradicts the first point about prison being a higher quality of life in Japanese jails than outside of Japanese jails.
I think as population imbalance becomes the norm for most countries, those of us without networks of support need to start preparing for what the alternative to having tight familial bonds can be. I see a lot of people overly focused on getting unilateral social acceptance which is a fine side quest but the real issue is what the hell is everyone going to do?
Its true though for many men. Jail is pretty much like the military or even summer camp. You're not free but you also have very worries, amost none if its all short-term non-violent offenders. I just did a week...it was a pleasure..non phones, no youtube, no need to shop for groceries. I came out so refreshed and happy to be alive I'm thinking maybe I should go do another week!! ;P just kidding...i'll take a year or two off now.
Those people are fucked in the head if they think life in prison is better than life outside prison! I'd rather die than go to prison!
Sending an 80 year old to prison for 3 years for stealing $20 worth of goods is... certainly one approach to criminal justice
Number go up! 99% eviction rate is a sure sign of a sane system...
I think they're rying to help them get what they want, why go through with it just to get right back out if that's not the plan.
People sort of gloss over how draconian the Japanese justice system is. I think they have like a 99% conviction rate for criminal cases or something like that. People always liked to talk about Japanese prisoner reform, but kind of ignore how insanely the deck is stacked is against you once you do get arrested. They're also very xenophobic, which is why right wing chuds like to throat Japan as a model enthnostate of a "pure untainted culture."
@@hanswoast7Conviction or eviction?
Societal values in Japan are different. Public order is highly regarded, which is a large part of why it is so safe. Stealing things in Japan is very out of the ordinary and disruptive. We need to stop imposing a western imperialist lens on these places or the western embrace of crime.
My grandpa always joked how he would just go to prison when he could no longer work so they would feed him for free
Yo I'm stealing this idea this might actually be meta
I remember when an older man "robbed" a bank for $1 just so he could get arrested to get medical care. And it worked.
@@MakeSureYouCleanUp It was an older woman. She did that because she got cancer and cancer treatment was 6 months and the judge asked her if she had other means to get this treatment and she said no and the judge gave her 6 months sentence and she told him if she needs more treatment she will commit more crimes if necessary. It's actually a sad state of society and an example of failed states and societies.
@RemziCavdar Another one, eh? I was talking about James Verone in North Carolina and as I look, there was another in Oregon and another in Salt Lake. Def is the meta to get Healthcare in this country if you can't afford medical tourism.
@@MakeSureYouCleanUp Yeah, could be. I'm from Europe but heard that story about an American old lady. It was pretty sad.
There's a japanese show that depicts this. The main character is an elderly lady who tries to go to prison because her friend and roommate died and she couldn't afford the rent alone.
@@naetrain what is it called?
@@melelconquistador it's called Kiriko's crime diary
@@naetrain omg, there are 4 episodes available on NHK :D
@@gabi.a yep each episode is about an hour. Hope you enjoy it
@@Microplasticindulger Says the guy who's name is "microplastics indulger" 💀 stop throwing stones from your glass house and being insufferable to strangers on the internet that are probably bots anyway.
"The Japanese Government is trying to do something about this-"
*If they ain't trying to make life affordable and sustainable they ain't doing shit*
@@britneybij3997 they blamed women and immigrants. What more can you expect?
@@Praisethesunson they could at least make it illegal to be poor or something.
@@Praisethesunsonjapan is in this state because the us imperialists destroyed their economy with the plaza accords and also sanctioned them for daring to trade with the soviets in the 80s they are also forcing japan to spend huge amounts of money on occupying us based
the Japanese govt is very conservative, and the companies are a nightmare to work for. there used to be economic dynasties called Zaibatsus that we tried to dissolve postwar, but they still kinda exist in the same way families like the Bushes do and they’re exactly as problematic (look up Prescott Bush btw, he’s Dubya’s granddad and was part of the Business Plot which is way worse than it sounds).
@@oscaranderson5719and do you think the Clintons or Bidens are problematic too. Or are aristocracies only bad if they have the wrong colour next to their name.
I hear from some older folks in my neighborhood, they would rather go to prison than be homeless in the winter. At least this way, they have a better chance to survive.
Just don’t ask the churches to help shelter the homeless. Literally was turned away in wintertime trying to help a homeless person find a place to stay. Funny how God finds ways not to help.
Wow! That's actually great pension plan. I was thinking I'd just lay on the rails when I'm old and not able to pay rent.
@@exodeus7959Nice when boomers have given huge amount of their earnings to their churches all their lives, and surprise! This is how churches pay them. Churches shouldn't have tax exemptions since they clearly aren't charities or anyway useful for the community.
I'm just gonna keep it simple: snuggle down in the bathtub with soft music, glass of wine, and a well-hone kitchen tool.
Jesus Christ my dudes!
Even in Norway, where prisons are known for being significantly better than other places, people in prison get more support than per example disabled citizens. There was a horrific crime many years ago where Anders Behring Breivik killed and permanently disabled several teens, children and young adults on Utøya. This vile criminal has gotten more social support and a better life than a majority of his victims. Several of them have been denied financial support due to their severe PTSD not being recognised as a serious enough condition. It angers me deeply. Why does there have to be such a significant lack of support for struggling people world wide?
"This vile criminal has gotten more social support and a better life than a majority of his victims.": True. Taxpayers paid for his food, his housing his playstation and xbox and even his university degree.
It's true. It's like you have to beg and beg and fight for your right to welfare and help when you need it.
WTF??? That's nuts! @@07Flash11MRC
Capitalism.
@@prodigal_southerner That's not exactly in capitalism, in capitalism criminals are treated very badly and prisons are business rather than part of justice system
I cared for a teen who used to get sent to juvenile detention on purpose. He was a really good kid from a hard home. We finally figured it out. His sister would get on drugs and he would end up caring for her 3 under 4s and an aunt with dementia. It was the only way for him to get away from their demands without feeling ashamed. If he was in juvy it wasn't his fault he couldn't help them...
He was 15.
22 now... has 2 kids of his own and is a stay at home dad. His girlfriend works full time. He's our hero and many detention staff visit him.
When his youngest kid goes to school he plans to work with in juvenile detention.
I once had an encounter with an elderly woman that stuck to me. I was a student, and when I got off work on a Saturday, an elderly woman was driving around with her bicicle collecting bottles (i live in germany so there is a deposit on plastic bottles). Since like i mentioned I was a student and was addicted to caffeine, I had a few empty energy-drink cans in my backpack that I drank throughout my shift. So I asked the woman if she wanted them. Her eyes lit up, and as she took them she said "Thank you, I can afford half a kilo of Potatoes with these"! And that was when i realized, even as a poor student I never had to think about how many bottles I needed to buy my next meal. It was just incredibly sad. I get a few dirty looks here and there when I place deposit-bottles beside the trash-bin now, but I think the people who depend on collecting them shouldnt have to scrape for scraps in the trash.
There was actually a case a few years ago for an older woman literally being convicted for stealing trash out of a super-marked container. Like its a criminal offence to be hungry. Its really sad. I honestly plan to be done with my life once i get old. I live to the fullest as long as I can now. Because i dont see a comfortable retirement in my future.
It's why poor people tend to make bad decisions too. Our brains have limited capacity for decision-making - check out "decision fatigue". If you're constantly hungry, wondering where your next meal is coming from then you spend all your time thinking and strategizing toward that goal and have no mental capacity left for anything else really. The errors just compound from there :/
Thank you for giving them dignity by placing the recyclables where an aging body does not need to endanger themselves further. 🤍🧠💪🙏
And, I love you. May you always walk a path of blessings with awareness to share. 🤍
you "plan to be done with your life" ? what exactly does that mean?
My Dad always joked, "If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."
People are living longer now. Better nutrition and hygiene, less stress in general.
Just learn simple machine physics concepts and read Robert Greene books on political theory. These things will help you at least survive finding work weather political work place to get and keep a job or labor work where you use leverage fulcrums to move heavy loads.
I was arrested in Japan a few years back. I saw this firsthand the baffling amount of elderly arrested. We weren't treated well, and ate poorly. The officers were constantly barking orders at the older inmates.
I can't even begin to imagine what live must have been like to volunteer oneself to be sent to prison.
Kafkaesque bureaucracy and force of nature.
Some people are fed up with the system of people they never seen, insurances that has hundreds of hurdles for you to claim, tax benefits that excludes you for random reason, and rules that change midway.
So... instead of dying eating papers and ink, seeing people get up close and personal can be comforting. Even if they treated you harshly, they weren't the cowards that hide behind money and law.
Some even think "I survived WW2 and economic crisis, I can just go to prison and not worry about job searching. Also I can work until I passed out and gets carried to bed before these police gets news written about elderly abuse."
Some people willing to be treated harshly, because on the other hand Nature is merciless. On top of its Japan, their society are screwed up.
"You are blessed to visit Japan, but cursed to live in it" as my colleague says.
What were you arrested for?
@@epis8613 trespassing. Went to those tiny bars that ran out of people's homes, like a snack bar, fell asleep (probably a roofie) and they called the police saying I broke into their home. They dropped the charges after they were paid off.
@@pest174reading crap like this makes me glad I never got a taste for drinking and that I hate going to bars lol. I'd be fucking furious if I'd get drugged and these fucks call the cops on me and the Pigs even come and arrest me.
I'm afraid that it sounds like the Japanese "justice system" is FAR more corrupt than in the U.S.... ( although, fortunately, I haven't encountered that level of criminal justice involvement, so, I've never been to jail.) People must be treated Very poorly...😢😢😮
We spend so much money on the system that punishes people, rather than the one that rewards people for their lifetime of contributing to society.
That's really messed up.
@@Little_Lepus welcome to capitalism. If the poor think they are entitled to the basic necessities of life. That would mean fewer things our economic overlords could artificially paywall access to for profit maximizing.
You realize that literally every single paycheck you earn has a big slice carved out of it specifically just for this system you're saying we're not putting any money into?
You realize that if you're under about 50 you'll never see a single dime of that money because by the time you're old enough to retire these elderly people today will have completely drained it?
@@Praisethesunson People who blame "capitalism" for this stuff don't even know what the word capitalism means.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat People who don't think it's capitalism have never owned capital. So all you can do is fall back on how you assume the systems that rule you actually function.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat it's not the elderly that have drained it. The government has been raiding those accounts and leaving nothing but I.O.U.'s for WELL over 4 decades.
Those people who have families but their elders are still lonely and unsupported, are probably because their families have to work or study relentelessly to keep their head above water. We make life so hard for 90% of us, and so so easy for 10% of us.
Moreover growing old doesn't mean you are good it usually signals to the contrary. The lady that had money in her pocket and her son has been insisting she should be interned in a mental hospital. That doesn't sound like poverty or abandonment, that sounds like the type of parent that treated you horribly and even though as an adult you still do good by them, you pay for their stuff, you allow them to choose whether to be interned or not, you continue supporting after they have come out of jail at keast once and offer them the help they need (psych wards are mad expensive idk how he is going to pay it in this economy and again he didn't force her, he has been insisting that is the care she needs and she just refuses) they will still refuse because they just are bad people. She is bad mouthing a son that has probably given her far more than I will ever be able to give my parents, speaking about putting him through university as if he isn't actively trying to care for her and offering something even more permanent and expensive that is psychiatric care. He even told her to get interned and take life easy but she just refused and preferred to go to be mistreated in prison instead, as if it was much different from a psych ward. It makes no sense to me.
Capitalism concentrates wealth.
Why are you assuming so much about this woman and her son? For all you know her son just wants to get rid of her. Why take such a negative view of these people with literally 0 evidence? Chill
@@MegaGraceiscool She said all that information herself. If the son wanted to get rid of her he could have gotten her forcefully interned the first time she came out of jail. Specially as a senior citizen who is unstable enough to believe jail is a place you just go to "be myself" and denies she is mentally ill whilst in the same breath saying she stole because of her anxiety. Kleptomania is still a mental illness and so is anxiety bad enough that it can somehow change your inner values and perspectives on life. She needs psychiatric care regardless of how you look at it. Instead she decided to go to jail, repeatedly. (For context I spent a week of my life in a psych ward for a life exit attempt, it is not fun because it is basically three steps away from being jail, i don't know why anyone would choose to go from the pan to the fire).
@@SigFigNewtonTaxes concentrate wealth. Capitalism gives people a way to say nah he’s too rich.
"After youth crime, there will be elderly crime" used to be a satirical joke by a German comedian in the aughts.
Given the lead content of the boomers, they've been criminals since they could speak.
Ahead of his time
"Comedy" and "Germany" don't align very well
Jermans just keep proving that the only funny Jerman got sent to the Eastern Front by silly moustache'd Austrian painter for being funny.
Volker Pispers? Yupp, I remember that one. A visionary.
Fun fact it costs $132,860 to keep one prisoner for a year in the state of California. The state of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations, has 34 adult prisons build to hold 85,083 people, lets just give them the benefit of the doubt that this is the exact amount of people currently imprisoned. That means we are spending $11,304,127,380 on prisons... really makes you wonder why there is even a housing crisis.
It is big businees and no wants to hear this story.
The average cast to imprison someone in America is about $31,000 per year.
However, you may be crossing jail in prison. Jail is more expensive than prison in most states.
Anyway, both are much more expensive than public housing and basic food stamps.
Privatized prisons are a big profitable endeavor for the rich. It’s like the 100 dollar bandaid you hear about in hospitals.
Also, slavery is legal when people are imprisoned in the US. I would hazard a guess that the private prisons are raking it in. No wonder the US has such a high rate of imprisonment
That’s why they are sold to work. And they get little rewards for it. Fight State crippling fire, get 1 dollar a day. Kamala Harris knows all about this.
imagine Japanese grandma being so sick and tired of her "role of caregiver" she just commits crime and go to jail to "be herself"
That was almost me 😢
I had no help, was unpaid, and she was 300lbs and incontinent. It had been going on for 10 years at that point, with family threatening me with homelessness and violence if I didn't continue indefinitely.
I was genuinely considering this as an option for myself, and unaliving myself was also on the table, too. D3ath genuinely sounded better than changing diapers and doing wheelchair transfers to and from the toilet while being screamed at 24/7.
I'm doing better now, but I miss my Grandma a lot 😢
@@5und43 Hugs you :(
"We need other place to spend time, other than work and home"
"Does prison sound good?"
Shame that a place to spend time that isn't making a profit would be communism
Loitering laws might just make a huge comeback.
We are at the point where everyday people are going to be liquidated which means incarnation, forced labor and mass extermination.
Better than freezing or dying in the gutter .
@@williamkinkade2538 That is the bar set for wealthy democratic nations. Absolutely Fantastic
@@Praisethesunson Wealthy doesn't mean it being well distributed.
Prison is the new retirement plan
It's the only investment strategy with infinite returns
Prison is the only guaranteed mass public housing western nations have built in the last 50 years
I am so stupid. I was just going to kill my self.
I often think of the Who Do You Think You Are ? (UK) episode featuring Black Adder's Tony Robinson. When they got back to the generation of his great-grandparents, the point was made that going into the parish workhouse was the solution for the working poor. About 25% of British society reaching the age of 62 or so did that. So they'd pass their elder years picking oakum (hemp fibres) from old ropes to recycle as caulking for ships. When the timbers of wooden watercraft started to change shape and lose water-tightness, as much hemp fibre as possible would be jammed in the gaps and then tarred over. Pretty sad, but the lack of social services and absence of anything like an old age pension meant that work-houses were de facto the only place to go once people were no longer able to support themselves with waged labour.
Even animals take care of their elderly... are we really so degraded that modern society has made us lower than wolves, african wild dogs, and crows?
Wow. Yeah. This is kind of a wake-up call (and one I needed, thanks mate). I went into this video expecting 'entitled Karens', not sad lonely old folks whose lives suck so bad that prison is better. I needed the reminder that the real struggle isn't between *generations,* but *classes.*
Powerful people wanna divide the poor by any means available... Race, age, gender, sex, orientation...
It's both though... Boomers have shown the greatest crime rates at every rung of the social ladder for their whole lives, and it's only continuing into their old age. Check out the lead-crime hypothesis. The fact that the most powerful people of the most criminal generation also victimizes their own doesn't negate that it was them doing it.
Class consciousness & humanitarian pilled 💪
This intergenerational clash has been manufactured in the last decade or so - when those at the top pit those of us at the bottom against one another we forget that they're the ones pulling the strings
@@frempy4426 exactly - I wish more people would realise this!
It costs twice as much to keep an elderly person in prison than housing them
That's twice the profit for a private prison owner.
@@dgh6g33gf Yep! Thanks capitalism!
Japanese prisons are not privately run.
They may be capitalists, but they are not as far gone as America.
Yeah, but if you just housed that elderly person instead of imprisoning them, the voters would complain about socialism.
@@AngryReptileKeeper "Evil commie!"
America is completely failing in addressing the homeless problem. Meanwhile the rich get richer.
@@missc.murphy3494 the only guaranteed mass public housing in America is prison
And the poorer get poorer...
Well your politicians keep dehumanising and stigmatising people who need help or ask for help calling women especially single mother on welfare "welfare queens" or homeless people bums who just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and the people keep falling for it
homelessness is a choice
@@eman6784 A choice made by landlords and imposed on everyone else
After working as a care worker in some awful elderly care homes with very corrupt workers, I honestly feel like I'd receive better care in prison than I would in a home. I live in the UK and the state of things is awful.
I used to sell care home packages too. £2000 *a week* on the average around London.
Oh brother im 21 i dread aging to see 50+ in America
My late in-laws were in a wonderful care home. I did a lot of research before they went there, to find a good place for them
I know elderly people who ran the numbers and realized they could either go to an assisted living facility or simply live on a cruise ship for the same amount of money. They had the money, so they chose the cruise ship. But a lot of people don't have the money for that
These are complete money-mills
It was awful because those care homes were probably owned by private equity firms.
if much of the elderly population in the U.S. feels this way now, i can’t imagine what it will be like when Millenials and Gen Z get older.
... that is if they live long enough to see the old age.
Brother, we won't get to that age 💀
nah if old people are doing this the younger gen will be just become criminals as well
We weren't lead poisoned into narcissism the way boomers and gen x were.
Covid, loneliness, stress, mental illnes, and higher health costs would slow their age retention.
This is a thing in the US too. I read a story a few years ago about an elderly man who robbed a bank but insisted on only taking $1200 and left a note with the banker for where police could find him. He was in a bar, still had the money and had no intention of keeping it. We find out later he was recently widowed and evicted and only stole enough to go to prison for 3 months which would cover him through the winter. I'm not sure if this particular story was true, but there are many others like it that are true.
Kinda sounds like it would just be better to have state funded nursing homes, but that's one of those solutions that sounds like it makes too much sense 🤷♀️
We already have those in Europe, but the future costs and labor requirements are going to be crazy.
problem is, whose gonna pay? young people who don't exist? lol
Thats probably something both needed, and not actually enough resources for. Finding enough workers for those nursing homes could be a challenge, even harder if you want qualified good and reliable workers. So is funding it economically if the economy in general is failing.
@@zee9709 it's almost like.. the prisons are already functioning as that.. who pays for the prison? I'm literally just advocating for converting some prisons into nursing homes. It wouldn't be that hard.
@@zakosist I mean.. you think prison guards are better trained for that? Every single comment here is so nearsighted..🤦♀️
I KNEW IT!! I CALLED IT!! I always said if times kept getting tough, prisons will become safe havens simply because there will be a roof over your head, food on your plate and you will not be alone! fast forward 3 years and what do you know, prisons are becoming homeless shelters!
This is a sad thing to be right about, but it also shows just how far the middle class has fallen worldwide. greed is starting to take over...
Starting?
That was obvious, being homeless vs. free bed, shower, food, some company... Sure when you're homeless you have all the "freedom", you can go and beg for money wherever you want...
There is no middle class,
Only the working class & the wealthy class.
Well, they're already mental institutions. You don't care about your citizens and don't give them a safety net, this is what you get.
@@FirstnameLastnames there very much is a middle class, though it's getting eroded by quite a bit.
Instead of designing everything to drive a profit, perhaps we should design our countries to build and sustain long term real (not monetary) wealth (having things of quality and endurance) for the citizens. Their existing pensions would go further if not for overpriced housing and a dearth of medical care providers.
Like Adam Smith originally designed it. Its ALL monopolies now.
It's all about money
but how would that make money? money money make money make money make more money?
@masync183 The concept originally was that the wealth is in production, not metal or paper. We tax working and give investors breaks. Our government is obviously rouge and it's wild to watch and listen to people talk about it. I bought the wealth of nations from my high school at a used bookstore. Very sad.
Blasphemy! We trust in our God the almighty dollar🎉
I worked in a jail for awhile, about twenty years ago, and we had homeless people who would get arrested every year in the winter time, not just to get out of the weather, but to get the free dental care. What a society we live in. I hesitate to call us civilized.
In Canada our subways and libraries are being crowded with homeless. Where else can they go with no shelters and mental health centres.
@@clairemercer3099 makes sense. Canada is such a small nation with no natural resources to construct houses. It's not like Canada of all places could build mass public housing inside of 2 years. If they could, that would be communism.
Lmao and canada letting in more indians, then bash japan for not letting in immigration
The subways are an issue too in NYC. With no state mental health institutions(President Regan shut them down in the 1980s)certain areas all over the city from the Bronx to Manhattan are flooded with mentally distressed and sometimes violent homeless people. Some of them from Central America, Mexico and Venezuela, not just Americans.
In Europe it's libraries and universities, which is bad because there already aren't enough spaces for young people (even bars are way too expensive now and you are forced to consume) and students (of all ages). Now homeless people who just wanna sleep without freezing to death are using multiple chairs each, tables and the floor just to get some sleep, eat or use the free internet for entertainment. Very few if any actually use it to try to find a job or a room in a shared apartment.
@@clairemercer3099 Yeah but more homeless people is good for landlord profits so what can we possibly do?
-Every Western nation
I've literally been considering this. I'm from the UK, nearing 40, have 0 pension saved up, no house, no kids, stuck with some severe mh issues. I'm already struggling with working part time, and live with my mother. When she eventually goes, I won't have anything left and definitely won't be able to afford basic costs of living. I think back to the stories a cop friend used to tell me of how they'd 'arrest' homeless people on christmas eve to give them a warm cell and free food for a few days over Christmas, and I think hey, prisons not great, but it can't be any worse than the nothing I'll have outside of it. At least I'd have people around me and know where my next meal is. I don't want to be one of those thousands of old folk in the UK with their water and heating cut off, barely able to feed themselves.
“They’re trying to build a prison,
They’re trying to build a prison,
They’re trying to build a prison,
For you and me to live in!”
The System can get you Down.
@@drhandle4498 it’s the toxicity, the toxicity of our city.
We gotta start building Arcologies, instead of cities
The prison was built millennia ago, it only grows more sophisticated as technology advances and scientists discover new psychological methods of controlling us that the capitalists use to their advantage, as they do everything else heh
Just remember, life is a waterfall
We're one in the river
And one again after the fall
When you said “people have been getting really really old lately”, I felt attacked 😅 🤣
2:58 This often cited statistic is frequently misunderstood. Prosecutors in Japan drop 50% of the cases they're given; they only pursue cases they know for sure will get a conviction. America's conviction rate is 99.8% if measured by the same conditions.
Thanks for the information.
This is also similar to how many lawyers and cancer-care centers and other businesses with a "reputation for success" work in the US as well. It's easy to succeed when you only try to succeed with easy cases.
I think the focus is too much on the money and not on the social environment.
Fads said "I can't help wonder if you just gave them the [prison budget] money, if they would've committed the crimes." But I think most of the Japanese women seemed to be having a problem with loneliness and anxiety more than financial strain.
I'm 35 and I already feel like I can empathize with my geriatric neighbor when she tells me she can't stand being so lonely anymore.
Spend more time with your neighbor, problem solved
@@HighNoone I try to. It's hard though because every time I go over there she keeps me for hours. When our power went out I stayed at her condo keeping her company till 1am. Also, I'm a 35 year old man though, I want a family to take care of, I want babies, not someone else's aging mother to comfort after she cut ties with everyone in her life.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat I don't believe you.
I think you're actually just twelve cats in a trenchcoat and you secretly love being with an elderly woman. Just admit that she's feeding you!
Get her a pet! That might keep her company and love.
@@dillanikobe495 As a general rule in life it's a bad call to gift someone a pet.
The problem people forget is that, whatever the mythology around prison, prison is more about the rest of society rather than about the prisoner themselves. Prison is a way for the rest of society hiding away problems that they don't want to think about rather than actually making a change of any kind to the prisoner themselves.
its appreciate some of the nordic prisons, like the ones in iceland. sure, you can try and run away... but why would you? youre just gonna freeze to death regardless if you do, so 😂😂😂 and they are nicer than some hotels ive been to, tell u what
In this economy? They got nothing metaphorical to lose, but their assets aren't just going to people in need
Damn, this is a heavy one.
Prison might be a viable retirement option versus homelessness.
Cost $35,000 to you, the Taxpayer, to keep just One person in jail
Who knew that elder poverty as a policy choice would possibly have this effect?
Cost $35,000 to you, the Taxpayer, to keep just One person in jail
I just want to say, if i decide to retire to prison, it ain't just going to be shoplifting that i go in for. I'm robbing a bank and trying to get away with it.
Go big, or go home😂
More dangerous tho
can i open a "prison" to get the funding, but it secretly just be a care center?
I don't know about in Japan, but in the US it's the older generations that voted and keep voting for policies to slash social security nets, even the ones of which they are the ones who most use and benefit from, and that make it easier for the wealthy and powerful to continue funneling all the wealth and resources from the average person. They were able to live good in their youth, voting for short term gratification and screwing the future that they probably didn't imagine they would also be living in. They thought that voting in favor of the rich would benefit them because they believed someday that would be them, not understanding that the policies and ideals they voted for were exponentially increasing economic disparity actually making it less likely that they would ever be "rich".
And people still want to make us live to be over 150 years old on average with absolutely no other consideration for what that would entail or look like
They don't though. There will be a longer and healthier life for a few. The rest, like us, will live relatively short and brutish lives.
@mirroredvoid8394that’s not how it works. Extending your life doesn’t push back biological milestones like the point at which your cells are dying faster than they can replicate, or the point at which your cease to generate new neurons, it just extends the period of time after them
I'm looking forward to the popularisation of "old people doing heists" movies this is going to cause.
"Going in Style"?
Oceans 65 years old
King of thieves
@@anonmouse15 great movie
RED will now be the new Fast and Furious franchise. Love it 😂
Damn, billionaires shouldn't exist.
The problem is though, that those same "traditional" older folks are the same ones voting for those billionaires with both polls and wallets.
@@SeeingBackward Absolutely! Why do people vote against their own best interests - let alone against the best interests of the wider society?
Trillionaires
TRUUU
Yet there are over 2000 billionaires hoarding more wealth *each* than any reasonable person could spend in ten lifetimes
Thanks capitalism!
This is been a growing trend for quite some time. The media refuses to talk much about it, but there have been a lot more older folks committing crimes in the US just to get healthcare. Two cases in recent years of bank robbery in my region where the specifically said this was their reason.
0:40 this is the case with my father too. He couldn’t take not being called a CEO anymore and began beating my family harder and harder for decades since losing his job.
I asked so many experts to help him for all of us. Many say heavy alcoholism from his work and his asocial nature made him “more prone to acting out and abusing people.”
Poor lad 😢 hope he finds peace in his remaining years. It’s even more f’ed up that this mental disease has fully transferred to my sibling.
My dad and he don’t take of themselves, lost interest in 99% of what they loved in life, and really let their hygiene/health go. Both are overweight, pre-diabetic, and still chugging soda when I tell them Alzheimer’s is practically Type 3 Diabetes in the medical sector.
I think the main failure is cultural. Our societies lost the social cohesion and unity to keep up the village and extended family as a functional social structure. Nowadays it is usual to move far away from your origin to settle, get a job and start a new life. We also have divergent culture and belief systems that makes it harder to understand and connect with others. There is no longer one big community, but many small and disconnected ones.
We also usually enable narcissistic behavior in our culture. That leads to lots of ignored and downplayed suffering and finally to lots of bitterness and estrangement. Neglect, exploitation and abuse are never moral, and never lead to anything good, be it in professional or personal relationships. It can destroy friendships and families from within.
On a technical level we are well connected. But on a cultural and emotional level that is sadly not the norm anymore.
The government and its social programs can and should be improved. But they are the external, materialistic attempt of a fix for something that is an inner, cultural failure. It is still a good thing social program are there. They provide temporary relief, but not a permanent solution.
We are so focused on material plenty that we forgot about human connection. Both are important.
This is all correct, but it's easy enough to leave it at the victimized people were victimized by the people who did the victimizing. But why did so many of the generation do the victimizing? The lead-crime hypothesis posits an actual logical physio-chemical cause which is highly plausible.
I couldn’t even in my dreams explain it as precisely and eloquently as you have 👏👏🫠
Working retail you find older people steal just as much if not more than teenagers. Now I know it’s a win win for them, new earrings they couldn’t afford or hot meals for a month.
Recently discovered and love your presentation. One thing for me at 2:38 the white background flashing is a bit distracting with strobe sensitivity
Thank goodness someone says about it
I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me
Yes, that was a worry for me... I get ocular migraines and stuff like that can be a trigger. At first I worried my ancient monitor was about to go out. Otherwise, love the presentation style.
As a security guard I will say 9 times out of 10 it’s always the elderly that are braking into things and vandalizing property
Thank you for covering this topic, I would have never known about this otherwise
might be a reach but I think this is why the nuclear family was a mistake. it was better when people lived with their extended families
Disagree. Nuclear family isn't equivalent to getting farther from relatives. In Asia, many people live in nuclear family structure but they take care of parents and relatives in need
@@Glacier7474They do, but the nuclear family has made this a terribly stressful system. In China, for instance, one child, usually the oldest son, is responsible by law for the care of their parents *and* grandparents. They are also most likely a single child and so carry that responsibility completely alone. In the event where the son marries someone who is also a single child, which is very likely, they carry effectively 12 people's welfare on their backs alone. And this goes for a lot of families -- the elder homes are already packed. The nuclear family is founded on the idea that there will always be someone other than your child to take care of you. Well, if everyone thinks like that, then there statistically just won't be. That's what's happening now.
@@Glacier7474 wydm the old people he's talking about are from asia
It only happened because people and the powers that be said a market economy ought to be the way the whole world works. Now people have no choice but to split up as adults to seek their fortunes in various cities based on what jobs they could get.
The nuclear family and distance from relatives is merely a symptom, not the cause.
@@dallyvfx3d I was talking about Asia in general. Japan's hyper capitalistic society deserves its own mode of conversation
This video got me thinking on what you said about how it was costing the system more to house them in prison than if they had just paid more into social systems to keep them comfortable and improve their quality of life outside of jail. This reminds me a lot of the healthcare system in America, especially, for those with lower income that have medicare/medicaid. These state or federally funded programs are by design super wasteful and patient treatment/care is an afterthought to profit gains. All these big healthplans that are funded by medicaid and medicare incentivize the companies most doctors have contracts with to extend treatments or have patients meet A LOT of pre-requesites to even get obvious treatment needs met. Where often, you see gaps in care where patients will go to hospital to get the care they need because it takes too many appointments to go through the proper chain. Got a broken arm that needs a cast? Well take that referral from the hospital to your primary care doctor who will then ask you to get an xray to confirm the break then refer you to an orthapedic who will cast your arm. This was already confirmed you had a break when you went to hospital.. but now the system artifically was able to get more taxpayer money flowing into the pockets of the rich ceo's of the healthplans and they kick back extra money to the doctors and pharmacies that play along.
I worked in insurance in america for 3 years and god it is brutal for those with low income funded programs like medicaid/medicare. They really jerk these patients around without a care all for profit.
Excellent and fascinating presentation! It brings up numerous huge social issues and dilemmas. Youre good at putting the information in context. Thank you for your work.
I think people tend to forget, the older one gets, the less intimidating life in prison becomes
Yeah, well, the average pension in my country is between 1.600 and 1.900 euros per month, depending on which statistic one chooses to believe. The average monthly cost for a nursing home is between 1.800 and 2.200 euros per month again, depending on region and statistic. Costs for nursing homes include the stay in the nursing home only, not any of the other costs of living/aging, that comes on top. Staying in prison isn't just free, you actively earn some money per day doing small jobs (like packaging stuff etc) plus your pension doesn't get canceled. Hmmmm, I wonder how high elderly crime rates are in my country because that kind of statistic is somehow not that easy to access. 🤔
Prison isn't free where I live either. (Europe)
Which country is that?
@@Dunmerdog Belgium
Important sidenote: not all prisons give opportunities for inmates to earn money, and those that do pay very little (160 - 200 euros per month but still better than nothing, I guess...)
"my country is between 1.600 and 1.900 euros per month": And you guys are the wealthy ones. My parents only get half of that, but the cost for nursing homes is the same.
This is the same generation that taught me "its only illegal if you get caught" when i was a kid.
Im not shocked
I was taught the same, that if a person doesn't go to the cops, it is legal. The community had more authority than the police, and the police worked for the community and you had a constitutional right to privacy.
If nobody called the cops then the cops didn't have a right to know.
The cops have escaped their leashes since then and now many police officers are criminals.
Wow you’re soft as hell
Also if "the winner takes it all" is fine for you, wait until you lose hard enough.
I remember that 😂
A simple consequence of the fourth amendment.
This is so horrible, the fact that our society's worst punishment is better than being free is vile.
I was oblivious to this issue. Thank you for this essay. Excellent work.
The 3.2 million yen annual cost per prisoner, which you pointed out was twice the maximum welfare benefit, is about $22,000. Only three U.S. states, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, spend less than $30,000 per inmate per year. Most spend far more, with 11 states at over $100,000 per year. And a year in jail (not prison, obviously) in New York City costs ~ $550,000! At least when it comes to property crimes, I’m very confident most offenders would happily forego all criminal activity in exchange for a $100,000 salary…NYC should just pay them to stay home (of course it’s not that simple…or is it?)
You’re right to call the plight of those elderly Japanese inmates “heartbreaking.” It’s bloody awful to think of that woman not wanting to even go home, but with no where else to go.
Private prisons are a for-profit endeavor.
The problem with the proposed solution of "Look into what your politicians and leaders are doing to support communities in your area" is that wealth is disproportionately focused in a small number of communities, and the people concentrating that wealth also hoard political and economic influence on a grand scale.
It's not the boomers, it's the rich boomers who run the world, and will do anything to stay on top.
I had to stop part way. Idk if I’ll be able to finish the video. Imagining someone like my grandma thinking/knowing she’s better off in jail than the outside because she’s got no support outside has got me in tears.
a year and a half ago, my 60+ uncle attacked me with a knife and nearly stabbed me to death. I had a collapsed lung, my right hand was fully impaled by the blade, i was slashed across my left eye. I spent a week in the hospital, and my hand is still healing. I've lost feeling in two fingers.
The worst part is i think he's probably happier in jail than he ever was here in the house.
This is so sad. We deserve better societies that look after everyone in need
New subscriber I love how kind heartedly you approach these issues I haven't heard a single person my age advocate for empathy towards boomers and it was refreshing to hear it too
The comments on this video are really disturbing. Just because people aren't capable of working, or contributing to society in a way that you (the commenters) believe is useful, doesn't mean that they deserve to die.
There's more than one cause for this situation.
On one hand, there are older people who can't keep up with the increase in housing costs.
But there's also older people who have always been mean. Now they're retired. And there's no boss telling them to behave.
-My dad's friend is like this. Always bullied his younger brother. To the point where he still doesn't talk to him this day. And he was also arrested as a teenager for burglary.
Exactly. I would like to understand how much of this crime (in the US) is violent crime or assault, versus how much are things like theft or shoplifting.
Young jerks get old. Then they are old jerks.
Boomers? Committing more bad stuff in 2024? Ya that makes sense. Just look at how many Karens there are nowadays.
loss of 3rd spaces and no financial literacy are huge factors
Homeless people have been doing this, especially during winter, for ages. Nothing new under the sun. Prison can be a step up for people so crime has no downside.
I love how intuitive and straight forward your videos are. I always look forward to learning and expanding my worldviews fom you!
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Stealing from a corporation is a victimless crime so I can see why someone would choose that if they just want an easy trip to jail without causing any real harm.
Prison in Japan isn't the thunderdome/gladiator arena prison in the US is. It might be actually pleasant compared to living on the street.
Just looking at the title I know it’s because boomers are also the people at highest risk of becoming homeless because they’re too old to work and social security doesn’t cover the cost of living anymore.
So even though ~they~ forced us all to play along and “get a job”, and al voted for politicians who like to cut funding for social services that keep people out of poverty, there’s zero guarantee that just any ol’ job will net you enough money to prevent slipping into poverty/homelessness.
The boomers are unfortunately learning this the hard way and turning to crime (the way many often do) to avoid poverty.
Which is why it’s so frustrating when Black people are treated as if crime is our nature instead of a difficult choice thrust upon you by your circumstances.
This was a fascinating piece. Thank you for creating it.
I work Loss Prevention and noticed shoplifters are getting older. We caught 3 of them just last week and at locations we don't normally have problems.
It's disheartening because I can figure rhat inflation is outstripping social security and benefits. Being on a fixed income, these people might be forced to steal. They are going after produce and meat, not high value stuff.
It's sad, more than anything else
My mom was a stay at home mom (never worked with no retirement or savings) she expects my dad to support her forever and then she'll expect me to do it, going to jail for a petty crime is exactly the kind of vindictive con move she would pull; lamenting how _"her family drove her to crime"._ All the while preaching from a self righteous soap box that precipitates her recidivism.
Being a stay at home mom is work.
@@mE-zx7pt yeah, a nice lil part time job lol kids go to school for half the day
@@mE-zx7ptIt aint nearly as soul crushing as the corpo, bureaucracy hell that most people have to sludge through on a day to day. Oh no, you have to clean the living space of the people you love and cook meals for them. So hard.
@@mE-zx7pt Strongly depends on the number and ages of the children.
@@lemonscentedgames3641If it's so easy, why can't men seem to do it?
I worked with an 80-year-old. ,man, once. I asked him how he was doing. He said, " Great, I woke up this morning." As we get older, having a place that will always take care of you must, especially for some, be a true joy.
In such a dire sociological situation, where the elderly exceed the young significantly, there are no good choices. You either enslave the young in order to care for the elderly, condemning today's young to become disenfranchised elderly themselves later, as they won't afford kids when they have to care for, pay for and entertain the elderly; OR, you chose to sacrifice (in terms of financial allocation) today's elderly (a horrible and inhumane choice), by giving priority to the current and future generations. However, besides the moral problem, there is also the numerical one. Many old people vote to keep their priority status, as they feel entitled to retirement after a lifetime of hard work. Absolutely no good choices...
There’s something to be said about retirement as a whole… it’s becoming an increasingly debated concept from our politicians, creating a unique set of circumstances for younger generations where the elderly they’ll be expected to care for are in a better position at the end of their life than younger people are in their prime.
How is that inspiring? What are we even working for if our efforts aren’t for anything worthwhile?
Couldn't have said it better myself. There's just no realistic way out of this.
@@iloveblender8999they keep voting against that
Or you could just target wealth inequalities...
The 1% have never been as rich as now, japan included...
@@etienne8110 All the redistributed wealth won't replace able bodies. Robots won't raise kids or treat elderly patients. This ain't utopia
😮 Wow! This is so disturbing! So sad! I take care of my elderly Mom and what I noticed amongst people my age that some people do not want to take care of their elderly family members. Even if the family members were good to them. 😮
Excellently done! Fascinating topic. Presented well. You are very intelligent. Suggested: a room divider scene placed behind you. Keep up the good work.
No, not becoming criminals. They have ALWAYS been criminals.
Sounds like a great retirement plan. How many frying pans do I have to steel to get a life sentence?
As someone whos been to Japan, (I lived there for a bit for a student exchange program and I am returning soon) Japan is living in the future in some ways. Technology wise, public transport wise, and in some other ways it’s like 50 years in the future. But in many ways it’s 50 years in the past at the exact same time. Many of the people are the kindest people I’ve ever met though, don’t judge them too harshly.
Also fish roe is usually fish eggs.
Tragic, and totally symptomatic of broken systems… great video, keep it up
This is why I’m subscribed, the attention and care you put into your videos is just beautiful. Thank you for your work!
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P-4 incoming
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."-Emma Goldman
Vote with your pitchforks. Socialism wont happen on its own when the rich keep getting richer.
This is what happens when a large, old population runs out of young people to exploit. The birth rate collapsed so there aren't enough workers. Expanding welfare just means even longer hours and harsher taxes on the remaining young people who already can't afford the only long-term solution, which is to have children
I think this what is happening to USA.
@@freedomdude5420
@@freedomdude5420 True , the wolves not happy cuz the sheep’s aint breeding !
I did the math, 21600 to 38000 in expenses alone to comfortably raise a kid per year where I live. And that’s with saving on childcare costs and not having to upsize to house one.
It doesn’t surprise me at all. I had an elderly neighbor living beneath me. Note that I’m only 6 years younger. But, she decided to retire early and, my impression was that she had no Plan B. No financial or medical preparedness. She became ill and her family, some of whom appeared to live in-state (this is the US), would not help her. She AND them, wanted me to become her free caregiver. I said no. I was already dealing with a narcissistically abusive family, I was trying to maintain no contact with. I couldn’t take on her family issues also. This woman was also married to a man, who was in prison, for the double murder of a woman and her child. So, I really didn’t want any parts of that. She tried to smear and coerce me, into doing what she wanted. It seemed that, as far as she was concerned, I was the maid, living in her attic, rather than the tenant, who’d lived there, for decades long before her.
She was found dead of pneumonia a year ago, this week, after several healthcare issues. She was only 63.
A person might ask, “Why didn’t you help her!” I didn’t as the burden would’ve not only been too great. But, because she showed entitlement to my life, even asking if I intended to buy a newer car. I guess, for running around taking her places, including maybe 75+ miles, to see her husband and to do anything else she wanted. She seemed to feel she was in charge and would address me as “girl”. I think her ultimate plan was to give up her apartment, move into mine and make a complete disaster if things. Even adopted dogs she intended for me to care for, while I have cats. You really cannot help everyone, without undoing yourself. She was actually the 2nd neighbor, who “decided” I’d be caring for her, all to be disappointed. I, now have, a new neighbor, in the apartment beneath me and, although her mother lives with her, they think I should be their child’s nanny, although I’ve shown absolute disinterest.
But, the woman who died? She died just weeks before she was about to be evicted. I really felt bad. I’ve not known what it’s like to be in her shoes. But I can empathize. Now that I no longer have family, except for 1 dying relative, I am heading down the same path, with the exception of the fact that I still work and just inherited a mortgage free home. I am not fooled by it though. It’s damaged and it’s worth today, might not be it’s worth tomorrow. I may become a person, trying to get into jail, to not freeze to death or be predated.
I’m glad you pointed out the increasing percentage of older people- there’s so many problems the entire world will be facing as birth rates are below replacement, and the loneliness, poverty, and abandonment of the elderly are just one section of the issue. Japan is just hitting these first but we’re all going to have to worry about it soon- how to house, feed, socialize and care for an increasingly large dependent population with a shrinking workforce and taxpayer population (social welfare is great- but who will pay for it if there’s fewer taxpayers each year and more people withdrawing social security funds? Who will staff nursing homes and hospitals as patient numbers only increase and people live longer?)
I think it’s important of course to make having children as easy as possible for those who want it- better childcare for working parents, parental leave, education improvements, financial support, etc. but some people are never going to want kids and now that that’s more of a socially acceptable and feasible option (as it should be!) the trend is never going to reverse. I don’t ever want kids myself but as my parents retire and I can see a not-too-distant future where I’m caring for them it makes me wonder, in turn, who will be there to care for me?
Thank you for posting
i love how japan is constantly treated like this perfect utopia by weebs, when in reality it has just as many problems as the US
Welcome to dystopia folks.
I think everyone goes on their own arc of being lied to and coping with what they were told and what life is actually like.
We want to believe right now is the best time to be alive, it would be sad to wish to be born at another time. So we tell ourselves we are the most civilized, the most advanced, the brightest and the best we've ever been as a species. We assume that the people of the past weren't as smart, were more barbaric and were mere stepping stones to get us where we are now. But slowly these assumptions come undone, we realize that we really haven't made that much cultural progress towards a better world. We only have more stuff.
In our initial dives into realizing the wrongs of the world we start despairing that maybe this is the worst time to be alive, there was a better golden time... Sometime? When I was younger and cared for, when I was less stressed, before I knew what I know now. We get more and more distraught about everything wrong for a while. But eventually, these thought will pass and you will realize that the world is not simply going through phases of utopias and dystopias. It is a whole world, with over 7 billion people living a very different day, everyday. It is completely up to you what path you want to take, and whether you are going to improve or ruin other's lives.
I don't know if I can properly express how good at this you are, this is the first video of yours I've ever seen. I learned so much about this subject just now that I'm kind of sitting here a bit stunned. I have never heard of this aside from the homeless in the US doing it, and people who have been in prison here not knowing what to do when they get out and trying to go back.
I'm instantly subscribing to your channel, you were beyond clear, are a joy (even with such a grim and sad subject) to listen to that I wish you were a teacher when I was in school.
Thank you, and I hope that somehow this video you made gets back to Japan, I have a really good idea of what they would think and in response, do. I don't think they will be pleased with themselves, Japan has a deep need to prevent this sort of thing as it brings scrutiny on a shortcoming that they are quite capable of fixing. The Japanese people I know would say "this is a shame and a dishonor" (I'm paraphrasing) and promptly set about trying to fix the situation if it existed in their family. And perhaps beyond.
It's interesting though that it is perhaps the upbringing of the younger generations that could really be leading to this, being told one needs to work ones self nearly to death leads to them having no time at all to spend with the very people that told them to do so. Sort of a vicious circle.
Thank you for having these conversations Fads.
My mum died this year in the US and my dad is still figuring out how to live without her. He has money, but my brother is very distraught by not getting her attention anymore.
I seriously appreciate this so much.
We need. To talk about these things more.
I feel bad but at the same time the elderly are a huge voting block around the world they had plenty of time to vote for genuine politicians that cold have done something the past 80 years but they didn't and most voted with emotion and not facts and they still are, Brexit is a good example of that.
Quite baffling that politicians can't understand the impact of their policies, or is it by design? To take wealth away and deprive people of ownership, responsibility, and freedom..
I have been thinking of this solution myself, and wondered why elders are not talking themselves out of big cities to keep smaller towns alive while getting a better lifestyle.. ☯️
Feudalism never ended. Capitalists wants to be the lords and they spend lots of time and money push politics into that goal.
They don’t care because the short term benefit is all that matters. These are the same people who will downsize/gut a thriving business of the workers and qualities that motivate customers to SHOP THERE in order to “record a profit this quarter”, without thought to how the business will be able to continue being profitable the next quarter, after the service suddenly sucks and the customer base has no reason to use their product
Also moving out of a city is not going to help people because cities are usually the only place you can survive without being car dependent. Small towns and suburbs are COMPLETELY car dependent and owning/maintaining a car is increasingly expensive. Aging populations literally NEED public transportation to get around safely and it’s not something they have access to in most places.
@@zekewalker1350 great points.
@@vampireLFD you can't convince a man of something when his job depends on him not understanding it.
You know, in the USA I would believe (only on state side with the prison industrial complex l), that going to jail is definitely somewhere you wouldn’t want to go, but I guess I’m wrong.
Our for-profit jails here suck.
Thanks for sharing this. I am 52, now and I am absolutely terrified of what might life might be like in 20 years. But this is a sad indictment of any society. We have a major problem here at the bottom of the ladder, starting out. As our government favors penalizing welfare users and also, stripping our Public Services staff (Ironically Welfare Workers, being the hardest hit). To fund its own pet projects. In our country is all based on how much land you own. If we get there I am concerned how many of our youth have a criminal record these days and have also been recidivists. One day, these people will be in charge of my future, or we just won't have them. That in itself is hugely concerning. This is not just a population problem, but one of the last 40 years, of the re-distribution of wealth, to a minority. Whilst they contribute the least. The Social Contract worked in theory, but as often the case, allowing people to have unnecessary input and favored outcomes. We end up where we are today. Inflation occurs in all parts of our society, not just the ones our treasury, uses to manipulate everything else. This is a natural by-product of overproduction. Whether we ever see, culling in the human population. Will really come down to those that lead. In saying that the Darwin Awards are great evidence, that we are pretty good at knocking ourselves off. It is hard as an individual, to think of the impacts of this dire state of affairs, without finding the need to bury our heads in the sand and hope for the best. :):( Some of our youth, never get on their feet and just continue to incur debt. We have re-introduced our 90-day law. That basically allows an employer to dismiss you without recourse. As you can imagine, it is very easy to abuse this legislation and it had to be reversed last time. Add in the fact, that you just about now have to be a rocket scientist to work in the supermarket, it is just a huge waste of resources to have an education system, if our brightest have to leave, to pay off their debt. Whilst we bring in more people than our country can sustain as our infrastructure needs were ignored, huge profits have been siphoned off by those and charged to overseas investors. I think we are getting closer to 'Corptocracy' every day. It is like everything they new in the 1930's, was wrong to do, to make Equity occur, has been ignored and we have continued to repeat the mistakes of the past and allow our rights to be removed. :( I am not saying everything is bad, but it could have been a lot better, had we not returned to the Mantras of Robber Barrons.