It's just interesting that there's a feedback loop where Japanese rapacious capitalism was openly trying to mimic American corporate culure, and then American companies in the 80s decided they had to get more ruthless to imitate Japan This is the basic way the system works https://twitter.com/Nascentransgirl/status/1337376527294607361 …
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He said he toured an American office and he saw some guy drinking canned soup out of a coffee cup And he got super excited "This is why America came to rule the world! They don't even leave their desk to eat lunch! He doesn't even have a bowl, he's drinking it from a cup!"
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"No more elaborate long lunches and contemplative tea breaks! Eating will now be done while working! Food will be instant and prepared as quickly as possible, served to the consumer by an automated machine!"
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This whole manic rant about smashing a much-beloved element of Japanese culture to pieces in order to resurrect the country's postwar economy and drag it kicking and screaming into the modern world of 1950s America
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Fast forward a generation and a half and now they're lecturing American workers in the 1980s that we're the ones who waste too much time shooting the shit and lollygagging at work and we need to learn from the robotic insectlike efficiency of the Japanese salaryman
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Buying food out of machines and everything being freezedried or canned or whatever is now a "Japanese thing" that America needs to learn from Lazy Americans with their coffee breaks and shit will be out-evolved by the zaibatsu So the machine consumes us all
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Now it's shifted over and they're telling American workers they're obsolete compared to the Chinese, who were the ones in the '80s demanding everyone learn to be like the Japanese and the Americans under the new Dengist regime of "market socialism"
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