I totally agree, imagine an article like this: Western philosophies that’ll help you spend money consciously: 1. Contentment 2. Asceticism 3. Frugality 4. Sus

I totally agree, imagine an article like this: Western philosophies that’ll help you spend money consciously: 1. Contentment 2. Asceticism 3. Frugality 4. Sustainability 5. Etc Sure, there may be something specific to the Japanese thought that is actually different from the Western ideas, but that article looks like a list of quite banal things wrapped in a Magical Asian trope. (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalAsian https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalAsian)