You’re making the ultimate statement of faith: growth is always good and necessary. It’s neither, to live well. We do a lot of damage by assuming that everywhere needs to grow all the time. Japan will be a wealthy and successful nation in 50 years, in a hundred, even without 20th century pop growth.
I didn’t say growth was always good or necessary. I said it was the revealed preference of the public, which I think is much more interesting than my opinion.
You think that most Japanese people want their nation to be more crowded? Yeah, I’d love to see the data on that.
I mean they keep moving to the most crowded place in Japan (greater Tokyo) so it certainly seems that crowding and congestion are positively associated with desirability in Japan. Meanwhile the least crowded areas continue to lose people n