Atomization and social alienation has long been a charge against capitalism as a system. It's interesting that this trend is similar in both the US and Japan, s

Atomization and social alienation has long been a charge against capitalism as a system. It's interesting that this trend is similar in both the US and Japan, so can't really be explained by something like American car-centric infrastructure. A tangentially related article that this brings to mind: http://julesboykoff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Boykoff_Leaf_blower_CNS_2011.pdf http://julesboykoff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Boykoff_L...