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Sometime back it turned out that Japan didn't actually have the number of centenarians as it claimed. Turned out that people died, and their relatives didn't re
by reactspa 5y ago
Sometime back it turned out that Japan didn't actually have the number of centenarians as it claimed. Turned out that people died, and their relatives didn't report it so they could keep collecting government checks.[1]
I wonder if hikikomori is some similar societal level semi-fraud being perpetuated. This normal seeming young man has locked himself in his seemingly very clean room for 2 decades. I don't believe it.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071
- stuu99 5y agoSuch people are real but they aren't "total shut ins", a lot of it has to do with bullying and anxiety and abuse. That and our hunter gatherer past, many people simply aren't meant to be corporate slaves that most people are. Industrial captialism where you own nothing and in a state of permanent indebtedness to rich mega corporations and the richest families on the planet. Not exactly a high quality life if you are are at the bottom of the class structure.
- rightbyte 5y agoBeing a literal slave in the stone age as a comparison to living with your parents in Tokyo? The bottom classes are far better off in the modern age. Hunter gatherers life is romantiziced. I recall some insane number of violent deaths recorded for those groups in South America in graves. edit: https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-evidence-on-violent-deaths https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
- ungamed 5y ago> I recall some insane number of violent deaths recorded for those groups in South America in graves. Everyone country had violent deaths, you cant compare stone age slavery with hunter gatherer lifestyles, they are very different people.