“Avoiding marriage and not having children” is better for your life… “An alarming change is occurring in modern Japanese” “Self-domestication” is progressing and they are becoming servants of capitalism | PRESIDENT Online (President Online)

2024-03-17 02:00:00

Why are more and more people not getting married? 『To what extent are humans livestock? The mental structure of modern humansToru Kumashiro, a psychiatrist who published the book ” (Hayakawa Shinsho), said, “The idea of ​​cost performance and cost performance has become widespread, and an increasing number of people think that marriage and childcare are cost-effective. “This is the result of the advancement of technology.”

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Everything is “cost performance”

Today, capitalist thinking is not limited to economic activities, and concepts such as investment, capital, and cost effectiveness (cospa) tend to be applied to various situations. Under these circumstances, the word taipa (time performance) also appeared, and was selected as the grand prize of Sanseido’s “New Words of the Year 2022”.

As symbolized by the terms cultural capital and social capital, sociologists have come to view educational background, education, etiquette, human relationships, health, beauty, and even the mind as capital goods, and in fact, they are considered capital goods. It is also subject to risk management. If you look at it, you can say that a wide range of modern people’s actions are based on the idea of ​​capitalism, and that this idea has been well internalized.

Ideas such as cost performance and cost performance have become widespread, and have even given rise to the habit of watching video sites at double speed, for example. When it comes to life, phrases such as “a life with good value for money” are being talked regarding, and although there are pros and cons, the internet media is buzzing with words.

Is it okay to let capitalism control your life?

But what exactly is a cost-effective life? Estimates of life in terms of cost performance mean taking a person’s life, which was not originally based on capitalism, and converting it into cost-effectiveness by converting it into a capitalist way of thinking, and converting the value standard of life to that of capitalism. Isn’t it regarding living based on that idea?

People who are conscious of cost performance and cost performance are not fundamentalists who live according to capitalist ideology from every corner. However, if you think too much regarding cost performance and cost performance in areas that are not originally based on capitalism, you will find it difficult to choose things that are not compatible with capitalism, things that may be detours, things that are not efficient, and things that involve risk.

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