価格が上昇しないと誰も消費しない場合には、高齢者、衰退国を想像してみてください。日本はスペインの未来を経験している
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Postales desde el futuro
Imagine un país en declive, envejecido, donde los precios no suben ni nadie consume. Japón ha vivido el futuro de España
José Ignacio Torreblanca 27 MAR 2014 - 16:12 CET
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Postcards from the future
Imagine a country in decline, aged, where prices do not rise and no one consumes. Japan has experienced the future of Spain
Jose Ignacio Torreblanca 27 MAR 2014 - 16:12 CET
Imagine a country that not only grows, but in which many people do not remember when was the last time you grew up. Imagine that this country is stuffed with debt as a result of a decade of business and government excesses. There, prices do not rise , people do not consume and entrepreneurs do not invest , so the savings does not generate wealth. Young people are not raised to buy a house , or have own car, not having a job for life . Having children becomes a vital project impossible : if both partners work , who cares for the children? If a woman ( or man) stays home , how a quality education for the children is paid ? Bring immigrants would be fine , as rejuvenate the population and facilitate care for children and the elderly , but weighs the fear that cultural differences make integration impossible.
Fewer children and more elderly inevitably means higher taxes and charges on those who work , who are increasingly making life even more difficult . Change things would be fine, but the inertia of two decades without growth is heavy : political parties, burdened by corruption, lack of leaders with courage , so gray and governments succeed over unstable. In addition, the electoral weight of pensioners is so great that any policy stimulus would be seen as an attack on their savings and pensions , would lose purchasing power because of inflation. So many years pounding the population with the discourse of austerity have now turned against the country : the collective project is to manage the decline , which is given by inevitable. In other words : the draft future is no future . Like the famous " invent them," society is resigned fatalism of " other grow ."
Could Spain within a decade ? Definitely . So it makes sense to carefully read the postcard depressing that Japan sends us from the future. They have already been there, and have not been about to return. But a concatenation of two circumstances is making them wake up. The first, more circumstantial, has been the Fukushima triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident) , which has not only undermined the collective self-esteem , but has questioned the main course sat under which conformity with the decline : energy and financial self-sufficiency. With nuclear reactors stop to ensure their reliability , energy imports are generating a current account deficit would force the country out to international markets to finance , with the consequences that we have all experienced as a loss of sovereignty . But as important as Fukushima is the challenge that China is posing with a sharp increase in military spending , which Japan is limited by law, and a major challenge in both airspace and sea of South China Sea . The two elements combined make the plan unworkable Sweet decline . Japan , whatever it says geography is not an island. No one is.
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