Used to be during the 1980s bubble era of Japan that you'd wave hundred dollar bills at taxis to wave them down. Japan wasn't always thrifty. This was a cultur

Used to be during the 1980s bubble era of Japan that you'd wave hundred dollar bills at taxis to wave them down. Japan wasn't always thrifty. This was a cultural change induced by the bursting of the bubble. A generational cultural change could just as easily happen to the USA too.