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Aeolun on Jan 23, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past

> Children are massively financially costly… daycare, clothing, food, medical care, education, etc.

Except Japan has made nearly all of this absolutely free. So the financial cost argument falls a bit flat.

midoridensha on Jan 24, 2023 [–]

Huh? Where did you get this idea? Daycare, clothing, food, medicine, and education are not free in Japan. They're mostly not as horrifically expensive as in America, but definitely not free.

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