Japanese mega corps are almost designed to be pathological for their best performing employees. I don't know if that is significant enough to have macroeconomi

Japanese mega corps are almost designed to be pathological for their best performing employees. I don't know if that is significant enough to have macroeconomic effects (all explanations of that nature strike me as suspicious just-so-stories), but if you hypothetically think you're good at something, a traditionally managed Japanese megacorp will attempt to a) dilute that aptitude, b) put you on a career track which requires decades to reach the autonomy you'd have at a US company in months or a startup in minutes, and c) compensate quality like a teacher's union does (I.e. forbid it and treat anyone asking for it as a threat to social harmony). That is not projection, btw. I played the game pretty well for 3 years. That is just me describing a small portion of the well-understood rules of the game.