Needing to ask your boss so he can ask his boss so he can ask his boss so he can verify if you can sharpen your pencil

• regressive drug laws

The future has way too much nationalism and misogyny.

Japan uses cards, it's just that they love their trains so much, they put their money on their fare cards I stead of using credit cards.

I still have my Suica card, it's got $50 on it still.

Until you find out that those Nuclear launching pads still running with 1970 bug ass floppy disks. Things just work.

Fax machines are definitely being phased out.

Floppy disks? How old is this meme? In the nearly twenty years I've been in Japan, I've never even seen a floppy disk.

Paper filing is an option if you want it.

And as for cash, electronic payments have really taken off in the last year. I still value my privacy though. So I stick it out in the slow line up.

All in all, there's a kernel of truth to the meme. What the outside sees as a Blade Runner society drenched in neon, the reality is more "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kinda place.

And don't forget how they treat homeless folks, either

I know it's not technology, but with all those other achievements, there could be mountains of improvements

Don’t forget the impending population disaster (because they never feel the touch of another person these days, their government literally has to try and encourage them to drink just so they’ll fuck already- and can’t stand immigration) and all those depressed young people using seemingly everything from the slopes of Mount Fuji to their own apartments as log-off locations, and then nobody noticing their bodies for months.

And their website design...

Living the casette futurism dream.

If it ain't broken...