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How is Japan 10000x more sophisticated?
by giacomoforte 9mo ago
How is Japan 10000x more sophisticated?
- password54321 9mo agoYou are right, I think I forgot a couple more 0s.
- giacomoforte 9mo agoSo racism?
- spwa4 9mo agoI think that if you compare the worst poverty that Japan is willing to accept versus the worst that India is willing to accept ... some people die of hunger in India. People barely die of preventable diseases in Japan, and none of hunger. India has a space program ... and India has people living off the land like they lived 6000 years ago. And then you calculate and realize that in fact that, first, India could have the same standard. They have the money to do that. It is possible. Second, actually doing that would be the best thing that could possibly happen to the Indian economy. Hell, you could slowly implement this over 20-30 years and that would later be described as "creating a golden age". In other words, Indian poor are kept poor to maximize the difference between the rich and the poor. If the poor were simply given money, one would expect that to 100x the wealth of rich Indians. And they're NOT doing it. ... and as bad as that is, then you look at Pakistan. WTF.
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- alexdns 9mo agoIf we managed sophistication as access to a toilet then yes Japan is 10000x more sophisticated than India
- saimiam 9mo agoWhy do you think Japan is 1000000x more sophisticated?
- password54321 9mo agoHuman rights? This is growth driven by sheer number of people and greed. Not really what you want as your template.
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- ivell 9mo agoJapan may have better human rights now, but was not the role model in the WW2. People are an important component of growth. Japan is facing aging population negatively impacting their GDP. What is greed for you? Building companies in the hope of becoming millionaire? If yes, then all the big economies have followed this path. Even China and Japan were greedy in that sense.
- password54321 9mo agoYou can have growth without greed. This might sound crazy these days but you can build things and do things that make money and actually benefit people rather than exploit.
- krapp 9mo agoJapan is a capitalist country, their growth is as much based on greed as any other. They do have robust social safety nets and a culture of civic mindnedness which improves quality of life over many other capitalist countries (particularly the US) but also "black companies" and salarymen working themselves to death.
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- falcor84 9mo agoThere's this giant gundam they retired last year, and I shudder to imagine what mecha they're building now - https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/tech-trends/yokohamas-giant-moving-gundam-shuts-down-operations/ https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/tech-trends/yok...