Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China

Re:Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silico... by kstenerud on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:39AM (#18407518)

This has amazing parallels to the panic over the Japanese manufacturing and management methods of the 1980s. Everyone was terrified that Japan would take over the world economically, and everyone would be working for Japanese companies soon if we didn't adopt their ways of doing things.

Hell, it even made it into Back to the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlUgBDgH1po

Seriously, this is what America was terrified of.

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Re:Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silico... by refurb on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:15PM (#18410102)

I can remember watching new reports of people smashing up Japanese electronics in front of the White House. And people were really concerned about all the US property being bought up by the Japanese.

It was the beginning of America's decline everyone thought.

It didn't turn out that way at all.

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Re:Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silico... by jpatokal on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:25PM (#18409648)

Bingo. Japan also was (and is) infamous for long working hours, but turns out that just hides a lot of inefficiency.

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Re:Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silico... by browsercoin on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:42AM (#18407561)

then IMF and World Bank popped Japan's credit bubble. Same shit happening to China but because of their authoritarian rule, they will let it go to shit before they lose control.

there's already social unrest happening as China is getting its ass beat in the trade war

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Re:Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silico... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:19PM (#18410142)

I.. uh.. congratulations on the pregnancy?

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