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Japan's decline is not a result of late stage capitalism but their inability to adapt and change cultural expectations and norms.

It's decline stems from favoring bullshit work over efficiency, change and adaptation.

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Are we not rapidly trending thither in the west as well?

Japan is only in economic decline, we in the west are in a societal decline, we just lie to ourselves that we're not, due to the fiscalisation tricks we employ to pump up bullshit metrics like GDP graph and the DOW(cough Pam Bondi cough), that only benefit the top 10% asset owners, as if that means anything to the average city worker who lives paycheck to paycheck, has six figure debt, lives surrounded by homeless people and hears gunshots at night in the background.

The economy != society.

I am eastern european and yes we do too but not to such extent.

>It's decline stems from favoring bullshit work over

Does Japan really stand out in this regard?

There are absolutely some (very) weird cultures/behaviours in the Japanese workplace that do set them apart from every other first-world country I've experienced (working in global organisations).

"Never nuke a country twice" for anyone who wants to know more.

Yes it does. Japan has a top down culture which does not see change as something useful.

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