Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Why are People Unhappy in the Modern World?" video.

  1. To be fair Japanese culture, and specifically honor culture, is a lot about taking pride in what you do. It inherited that bit from confucianism but the biggest issue here is that it really helps in getting dedicated workers who base their lives around that stuff. In fact they base it so heavily their lives are even more strict than normal westerners as their whole lives are getting into good schools from elementary school to get into the next level of good competitive school to eventually get a good job. Since their entire lives basically revolve around that at that point it's a mark of pride. And it just ends up making really taxing jobs because the populace isn't willing to do things like try to get better hours and doing something like that brings shame. It's a very different way of meaning which happens to fit really well into having workers who will do anything. I think a great example of how ingrained the workplace is in lives is how couples frequently find each other at work and it's accepted. There's nothing taboo about it like there is in the west. Hell workplace trainings have explicitly told me such things are bad because they cause conflicts of interest. When that's your entire life kids become secondary and really just a point of duty to your family line.
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  2. Considering the way he's described some of the issues with crisis coming, this quote seems like half of his videos lol
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  3. Well we secularized education and the only real moral systems are religions. Beyond that all you can do is have "sharing is caring"
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  4. Thank you. Whole world is just collectively stressed huh?
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  5.  @haltdieklappe7972  At the very least in the US you can basically just switch countries while keeping most of the laws since that's what each state basically is and there is a lot of countryside
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