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A comment on The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis. Parent comment

Re:The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis by TulliusCicero on Sunday April 16, 2017 @08:47PM (#14128516)
It's not just chips. Japan's generally protectionist/sheltering attitude towards businesses makes their whole economy structurally inefficient. Japan's nominal GDP per capita is like 40% lower than the US these days.
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Re:The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis by fulafel on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:48PM (#14132917)
There is more to life than GDP per capita.
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Re:The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis by TulliusCicero on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:57PM (#14142851)
Yes, but economic productivity is still pretty important.
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