Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "How does JAPAN want to be a COUNTERWEIGHT to CHINA? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. It is not so simple, and it won't help.
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  2. Is this a troll post.
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  3.  @Blackwindzero  ‘Japanese capitalism is socialism’ ‘why do you think it always fails’ a fairly obvious dig both at the track record of socialism and how poorly Japanese economic reforms have gone.
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  4.  @Blackwindzero  Righto, sorry for all the confusion, guess its hard to get tone from text.
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  5. Your analysis is in the wrong century. Imperial Japan didn't just happen to be aggressive, it was taught in the education system and reinforced culturally and ideologically.
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  6. People aren't getting what the OP is saying, Japan is despite feelings of becoming too materialist not a country well suited for a consumer based economy. The reason there are huge family savings is because they are very frugal and have a culture clash with the mindset of consumerism. This is not something which will change and government attempts have just lowered public trust in the economy and made them more spendthrift. Japan is much better suited to an export economy ever if it isn't stylish among economists and could be a threat to US dominance of the world markets again. It is not just that one sort of economy is better than another. It is the specifics that count.
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  7. Leftist policies are great for undermining the economy of a rival but to institute them yourself is tantamount to self sabotage. Though many right wing policies are also not wise by focusing on gdp, working only to the benefit of big business or trying to reconcile with the left.
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  8. They will at least be safe in the knowledge that most other countries are also committing economic suicide.
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  9. Why do you think it always fails.
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  10.  @Blackwindzero  Because in an economy it is the particulars which matter. Economics is largely the measurement of subjective value judgements. It is insanely complicated to try to decide them from the outside, it is a nightmare even for the best most dedicated organisers with more intelligence than the human mind can comprehend. Letting the system run itself leads to better results at a fraction of the investment and under socialist systems a black market economy often overtakes the surface one anyway just for people to get by.
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  11. Tell that to any Keynesian, they are all simultaneously jumping off a cliff at least.
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  12. They are moving from a descent to a tail spin. Wealth redistribution has a poor history of success and ignores that the main problem is the birth rate.
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  13.  @futureshocked  This is a result of the culture softening, unless you think traditional Confucian society was soft. I can only imagine what you think happened in the west, were the victorians softer than us, what about medieval people.  Fertility rates are far more correlated with religiosity than personal wealth or comfort, it being a issue of values makes sense as it’s not exactly like people were materially better off during the eras of greatest birth rates. The pension system undermining the investment kids were might play a role but China still has the old system and look at their birth rates even with the restrictions lifted.  I was talking about efficiency because Japanese put more work in than is needed, they could lower work hours and have people spend more time with their family's.
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  14.  @futureshocked  If we have an issue with birth rates the past is the place to look at because many make claims like it all being economics or people not being materially comfortable enough, though the focus on those might display the values issue at play, Confucianism places priority on family, and so is like Christianity in that it encourages people to have kids and sets up a system within which to do it, even if it takes a different approach to Christianity (which is much more actively pro natalist). What I was getting at is that values and priorities are key. Working conditions are certainly better than coal mines as coal mines were particularly unpleasant, the issue is that the coal miner worked with the motivation of supporting his family, the modern worker puts their work as their number one priority, which other than being a poor motivation, is also dehumanising and deracinated from others. Priority's need to be reset, basically. With efficiency they can have their cake and eat it too, same output, less hours.
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  15. Very American way of looking at it. It's not left or right, it is stupidity. Many conservative governments outside of America have no concept of big vs small government and institute policies based on interest groups, media and their entire parties only having three brain cells to rub together and bringing out the same tool that has failed them every other time it's been used.
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  16.  @davidford3115  People say that even here but it isn’t really the case, most of the nobility lost everything to the middle class (or commercial) elite. As in they were explicitly targeted, the upper class way of life was destroyed and their manors knocked down or sold off due to the tax's targeting them (and also any attempt to pass on what they had to the next generation). Even today there is a great deal of hatred directed at the supposed upper class, which is hilarious considering that they have little beyond titles and a expensive houses to upkeep and the fact that they have considerably better relations with people in the working class than middle class people do. In the UK at least the classes are cultural as much as tied to money or status. The Royal family is still around I guess but they have been continually undermined by legally questionable groups and the politicians. Technically the Queen owns everything including the people and her authority is the basis of all law (and english law is in practice based on precedent so that framework is pretty important), but in reality the politicians have undermined royal power considerably over the last 120 years, though their are still some counterweights, the military still holds primary loyalty to the crown (though historically there was still the threat that it’s members would happily march the whole of parliament to the gallows if allowed, the army being traditionally royalist and once having made the threat, an event often glossed over as them ‘asking’ for the restoration of the monarchy, they unsurprisingly didn’t have to ask twice and the regiment who did that now guard the queen).
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  17.  @davidford3115  There was a bit of that, but less than you’d think. The old and new elite really don’t gel well. Back during Victorian times it was the thing for money to try and buy into class but that included stuff like buying or building a manor, getting land (especially in Scotland were much of the old nobility had ruined themselves) but also trying to fit into the different culture through education, charity work and being active in the local community and wider circles. But that is no longer how money does things, they expect the old to imitate the new, and when that is the case there is intermarriage, but usually they don’t have enough in common for it. Through the culture is still shifting and the old aristocracy might well be wiped out, likewise much supposed middle class are culturally working class due to middle class attempts to subsume everyone. Politically speaking the working and old upper class are both conservative and patriotic and the middle class are left wing (often called champagne socialists) and have a attitude to the country that Orwell described as being more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from the poor box on the way out.
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  18. Building nuclear power in an earthquake zone is flying a bit close to the sun. Deurbanising would be good but so would less one track life expectations, removing women from the workforce and getting the birth rate up as a first priority.
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  19. He felt like joining the club it seems like when you look at what western governments are planning.
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  20. That is way they are so positive, it will mostly be spend on gear rather than going towards wages. Usually not wise but if you are an island it tends to be a lot more viable.
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  21. They are open to tourism or at least were before covid. Immigration would undermine the whole of national unity, do nothing for them in the long run and allow for negative foreign influence.
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  22. The real answer is to have many more kids, focus on efficiency and diversify the economy.
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