Japan is *consistently* better off than it's portrayed in American media. What problems they DO face are trivial compared to our own.
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Is it wrong to say that Japan's greatest natural resource is it social trust? Jordan Peterson was talking about how trust trumps resources.
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it could be argued--I think that misses the mark a bit though; Japan's edge is that they don't put ideas ahead of living breathing people
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Transferred a sense of noblesse oblige from feudal to corporate. Much rarer in post 1980s US.
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yes! exactly this
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It's been one of the big shifts in culture in the RR in the US. Used to be very tight knit. Now more corporate.
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Obviously not all Japanese are shut-ins or social failures. Obviously a lot of them exist or Otaku culture wouldn't be commercially viable.
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orrrr otaku culture has solid marginal appeal; people don't need to be full-blown recluses to enjoy some bit of it
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It relies on a lot of money being spent, I don't think a socially successful person would buy a love pillow or obsess over idols in that way
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Yes Americans obsess over idols, but they don't obsess over their personal lives to the point that they can't date.
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hardcore fans are a tiny share of the nerd culture base--it succeeds because there are lots of levels of participation
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I don't doubt that this is a fringe, but it is a large fringe. A lot of the problems in the West are large/outsized fringes. Antifa,LGBT,etc
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Otaku culture is definitely geared towards hardcore rather than mass market,just look at pricing schemes,too expensive for general audiences
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