Ritual Disembowelment Solution

A Yale economics professor has some ideas for how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. The “only solution,” he said, is mass suicide of the elderly, including ritual disembowelment. nyti.ms/3K2hp8R

A man dressed as a medieval warrior sits on a stage and speaks on the phone while two people watch him. The fake New York Times post jokingly presents mass suicide and ritual disembowelment as an economist’s solution to Japan’s aging society, creating an absurd and darkly satirical punchline. It is used as a reaction to bizarre, extreme, or wildly impractical solutions. EN: A man dressed as a medieval warrior sits on a stage and speaks on the phone while two people watch him. The fake New York Times post jokingly presents mass suicide and ritual disembowelment as an economist’s solution to Japan’s aging society, creating an absurd and darkly satirical punchline. It is used as a reaction to bizarre, extreme, or wildly impractical solutions.

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