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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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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Yeah, I remember this. And this is how "Japanese work culture" was framed in the US in the 80s.
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This is where my knowledge picks up. I had no idea that we and they had been leapfrogging over eachother in this pursuit. (I knew the American history of this, but not the Japanese side of it.)
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