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As someone who hasn't lived in Japan, what do you mean by this?
by armchairhacker 2y ago
As someone who hasn't lived in Japan, what do you mean by this?
- sgu999 2y agoLikely referring to urbanism, public transports, collective mindset of the average Japanese, cleanliness, safety, maybe some of their spirituality. As a tourist, everything seems at its place in Japan. Yes, you come across a lot of CRT monitors even in Tokyo, but who gives a damn really when your train is on time to the nearest second and you can sleep in it without being worried for your belongings.
- labster 2y agoAs economies fully industrialize and embrace computerization, they’ll face the same problems as Japan: long lifetimes and low birth rates upend demographics, meaning economies can’t rely on population for growth. Large swathes of rural areas are abandoned as urbanization increases and agriculture centralizes and mechanizes. Women in the out-of-home workforce means child care is hard to secure. The rest of the world is already facing these problems, just not yet at the scale Japan does. Yet.