[smt88]

Do you have any reasons or facts you can give for this?

If birth rates are low, how does your economy function with many older workers who can't/won't do labor like construction?

Why is Japan opening itself up for immigration specifically to fill jobs? What other solution should they have chosen?

[BlackRing]

You obviously downscale the economy with a population that doesn't sustain or require growth.

[smt88]

Not sure I understand what downscale means. How can a capitalist economy convert itself (even a small part of it) to one that doesn't require growth?

Do you have a concrete policy proposal for a country like today's Japan?

[BlackRing]

if you don't understand what it means to downscale production I can't help you. Capitalism doesn't depend on infinite growth.

[smt88]

I was worried that by "downscale" you meant to let people die, so I had to clarify.

As far as the claim that capitalism doesn't require infinite growth: that doesn't seem mathematically possible, ans it's certainly an unorthodox claim. I'd say that puts the burden on you to provide evidence (or, at the very least, explain).

[BlackRing]

It's disturbing that the first thing you admitted to thinking of when I said "downsizing" was letting people die. What the heck?

the basics of econ, growth isn't even mentioned when it comes to capitalism.

Here: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/