This must watch video is a follow up to the previous article: "Men Opting Out".
It explains how Japan rebuilt itself after the war thanks to a corporation centric culture which initially helped create a wealthy country paroxysing with the "bubble economy" to finally "consume" society by implementing a toxic culture of services built on loneliness and despair.
The reason why understanding the problem is so important is that every single other developed country is following the exact same path pioneered by Japan and will consequently experience a similar fate thanks to corporate greed, loneliness and social decay.
The worst part of this story is that there seems to be no exit possible from this downward loop. Japan has tried different solutions over the last 3 decades. Nothing worked, nor even dented the system which inexorably continued its forced march towards doom. With other countries be able to find solutions and fare better than Japan, or will they, like Korea, outrun Japan towards extinction?
No comments:
Post a Comment