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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by pezezin on Saturday September 13, 2025 @06:55PM (#45235957)
Japan is a really rigid country that values stability, hierarchy and following rules above all else. There is a reason why their economy has been stagnant since 1990.

And yeah, the houses might be cheap, but they are also tiny and most Japanese cities are ugly as sin. Not a great example IMHO.

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Re:Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction by maest on Sunday September 14, 2025 @11:33PM (#45245840)
> There is a reason why their economy has been stagnant since 1990.

There are many many reasons that go into explaining an economic outcome.

Reducing everything to a perceived cultural difference is wrong and intellectually uncurious.

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