Parental and family care leave is essential for our country to remain in good shape- this is obvious.
However, even though the "system" is in place, the "field" is not responding.
If someone takes parental leave or nursing care leave, naturally, someone else must do the work for that person.
Someone else will have to work for the amount.
And so, the person becomes overworked, sick, disfigured, and suffers from depression and other mental illnesses.
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Ensuring productivity through automation -- This is often said to be the decisive factor, but a point is overlooked.
The labor secured by automation is then to become something that is not needed forever.
Automation is a long-term macro solution to the workforce, but it does nothing to address labor shortages during certain periods, such as parental or nursing care leave.
Therefore, automation is not a substitute for parental or nursing care leave.
Curiously, I have not seen anyone or any content that correctly argues against this.
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This solution is simple.
The reality is that parental and caregiver leave reduces productivity.
To put it more bluntly,
Instead of prioritizing childcare and caregiving,
(1) As the international field, we accept that our country's GDP will fall into double digits (below 10th place),
(2) At the field level, we accept that we will lose out on delays in delivery and international competition,
(3) At the household level, we will allow a consumption tax of up to 30%.
We need to be as determined as that.
Well, I don't want to say this too loudly, but one more thing,
(4) Legalization of the right to decide suicide
If the law and the system guarantee the right to escape from life by oneself, even if it is a little painful or unpleasant, I (we) will be mentally relieved.
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-- Prepared to become a country that produces a certain number of people who hate this country and say, "I never want to be born in this country again," as an alternative to prioritizing childcare and nursing care.
This is what we need now.