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sublight wrote:The kids of today have no imagination! They have no concept of how to properly falsify safety data, forge certifications, or bury complaints.
Mulboyne wrote:It's not the youngsters, it's the old people:
Japan Echo: A Contrarian View of Young People Today
ChargerCarl wrote:the baby boomers fucked as all so bad
(idk what you call them in japan I'm in the U.S.)
wuchan wrote:I'm a farmer........
Much of the problem is the JA. It's a giant bureaucracy that has one goal: keep their thousands of redundant employees working and pay pensions. The JA does not produce any crops. Out of all the customers I have for my crops, the JA pays the lowest price.
McTojo wrote:Such BS. It IS the Japanese consumer that buys Japanese goods. Japanese farmers know that if they open the market they'll eventually loose big with Japanese consumers! You're crazy. Don't blame the gerontocracy.
The herbivore problem is systemic on a psychological level and has very little to do with the lack of job prospects. How the author tied that in with this recent herbivore phenomenon does not hold water. Life time employment with a fair work life balance wouldn't change anything.
wuchan wrote:Much of the problem is the JA. It's a giant bureaucracy that has one goal: keep their thousands of redundant employees working and pay pensions ...
ChargerCarl wrote:Wait what? I don't claim to be the most economically literate person out there, but this doesn't make sense to me. I mean, of course the japanese consumer buys japanese goods as thats pretty much their only option. Are japanese consumers so nationalistic that they would rather pay much more for domestically produced goods over cheaper imports? I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here.
Also I'm not necessarily against farm subsidies. While yes, it has gone overboard to some extent do to economic rent seeking on the farmers side, I also recognize its an important aspect to national security.
I don't know about you, but that seems systemic to me.
Yokohammer wrote:So true. Much of what the JA does amounts to extortion. Either you deal with them or give up the farm. It annoys me that people blame the farmers for Japan's agricultural woes (although admittedly some of 'em deserve a kick in the arse), when the real problem is that they're being reamed by the JA. But then, the general populace is being reamed by the j-bureaucracy in much the same way, so I guess it's just more of the same.
Disclaimer: I am not a farmer, but relatives and friends are, and I live in a farming area, so I get a first-hand look at what's going on. It ain't pretty.
Catoneinutica wrote:Should've chosen my words more carefully in my earlier post and written "a few thousand old-bastard JA members,"
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