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[-] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

I believe Japan has less inequality than the US. Not sure on that, but I think it's true. I think in this case we see work culture playing a role. The only country in the world with a worse work culture than the US is Japan. No one has time to even think about having kids when you are a company man there. It's similar in the US.

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It really is. In the US I mean. I work 6 days a week 9 am till whenever the fuck I'm done. Sometimes at 1pm and some nights I'm not home by 7pm.

Luckily I've negotiated less work orders on Saturday later in the morning so I have some kind of decline of work towards the end of the week. It took six years of constant work to get even that. Otherwise it's 7 work orders a day and I drive around 150 miles a day. (I work in household appliance repair. So I travel from home to home.)

It's a thankless job I get micromanaged in. The only advantage I have is that appliance repair techs are always in high demand because there's so few of us and I'm good at my job so my boss can't really fire me.

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[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Huge amount of japanese descent people in Brazil (including me), but I have the feeling the japanese would rather have their country implode than give us nationality

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[-] Gewoonmoi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Isn't Tokyo to be one of the most affordable major, developed cities in the world? The article suggests that Japanese homes are exceptionally expensive.

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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh no, not our out of control population growth fueled by resources running out as I type this comment and causing unspeakable damage to the biosphere of the planet.

Whatever will we do if our numbers fall below 7 billion.

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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