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Joke’s on you! Humans will be extinct by 2531. Maybe by 2031 if Trump becomes president again.

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That doesn’t contradict the original statement

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But it does though

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“Every person in Japan will be called Sato.”

In formal logic, this is equivalent to
“There is no person in Japan not called Sato.”

Since there are no people, no one is not called Sato, and therefore every person is called Sato. Every person is also called Steve. Or Klaus.

Edit: once you take the second part of the headline about the marriage law into account you’re right, my bad -

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I volunteer to marry there, and help avert this catastrophe, even a little bit.

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For one, there is no legal requirement that a Japanese partner take the name of their foreign spouse (in fact, it’s basically the exception to the rule that all married couples must have the same surname).

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Very optimistic to believe that the human race is gonna survive that long.

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I fail to see how spouses having the same name has any impact on the distribution in the future, the factor that controls that is the names of the children. To fix this you’d need to do something along the lines of girls get the dad’s surname, boys the mother’s, or the other way around. Also Spanish customs are worth looking at.

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This assumes that they only ever have the names they have now. Call me crazy, but I suspect that immigration policies will probably shift a little at some point in the next 500 years.

Hell, I wouldn’t even be willing to bet that any given country would still be around in it’s current form by then, including Japan.

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Generally speaking, I find it a little arrogant to think they can predict what society will be in 500 years.

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