The average Japanese was wealthier than the average American and their companies were buckbreaking western ones. What went wrong?
>>18452990The asset bubble burst, then came the Plaza Accords.The Lost Decade became the Lost Decades and the Japanese economy has been in a slump to this very day.Ultimately everything can be traced back to them adopting an economic system that doesn’t work. Funny how crapitalism consistently shits the bed yet it never gets called a failure like Communism. Curious.Anyways, watch/read this to learn more.
>>18453026Capitalism shits the bed and gives you Japan qualify of life. Communism shits the bed and gives you eastern europe quality of life.
>What went wrong?Damn, what a fucking shithole. How did they let it get this bad? Don't they realize if their GDP isn't continually increasing they're suffering?
>>18453030In the Communist Bloc housing, healthcare, education and employment were guaranteed. You got to go on vacation in the Adriatic Sea in sunny Yugoslavia and if you were good you got a nice dacha to spend the summers in as a gift.Meanwhile in Japan you study your ass off to get into the hyper competitive Tokyo University then you become a salaryman who has to get shitfaced with his boss after spending all day at the office even thought you finished your work hours ago. Can’t afford being seen as lazy! Your reward for all this? You barely get to afford a shoebox apartment in the city, your wife hasn’t had sex with you since she popped out little Taro. At least you’ll get to enjoy your retirement right?Wrong, you’ll die young of karoshi. KEKAnd that’s IF you’re lucky. If your parents can’t afford tuition and your grades weren’t good enough to net you a full ride scholarship then you’re doomed to live out your life as a wagie, you’ll be exploited the fuck out of by a black company to the point that you WISH you worked in a Chinese sweatshop.If the pressure becomes too much you can always become a hikkikomori, become a herbivore man and give up on dating entirely. But what happens when your parents die and they don’t support you anymore? The lights go out, you avoid your creditors and landlord like the plague and you die of kodokushi, the police finding your rotting corpse days later when the neighbors start complaining about the smell.Such is life in the land of the rising sun.
>>18453068>in Japan you study your ass off to get into the hyper competitive Tokyo University then you become a salaryman who has to get shitfaced with his boss after spending all day at the office even thought you finished your work hours ago.forced to slack off at work, have friends, and a healthy social lifejapan is truly the worst hell imaginableif only i lived in the people's republic...
>>18453068Seek help. genuinely
>>18453080wow mongolia is one of the capitals of death to overwork huh? like overwork in the fields or what
>>18453134Modern Mongolia is incredibly urbanized. 50% of their entire population live in the capital. There are wild people out in the fields (they fight for their meals) but by and large the average Mongolian is a city slicker now. Genghis Wept.
>>18453055HDI is a much of a meme metric as GDP is.
