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Re:Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IM... by nwienert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:12PM (#38031763)
Wallowed in backwaters is one way to put a nation with the second highest GDP in the world, extremely low poverty and crime, and rankings generally at the top of every measurable facet most care about including self reported quality of life.
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Re:Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IM... by TulliusCicero on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:43PM (#38032083)
This is more than a little rose-colored.

Japan does do very well on some metrics, but there's also ones where they do pretty badly. For example, they do badly on measures of gender equality IIRC.

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Re:Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IM... by nwienert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:30PM (#38032983)
As measured by their own self reported satisfaction with treatment of genders, or liberal western theories on what gender equality should look like? Would be curious to see the data there.
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