Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "This Man Helps Japan’s Struggling Animators | THE VOICELESS #35" video.

  1. I really admire some aspects of japanese culture, but then there are stuff like this that just makes me sick in the stomach. I don't care if it's an old system, if there is an overabundance of people wanting to work in the area, or other reasons why this happens - it needs to be outlawed, period. The anime industry is huge, global, and incredibly profitable. It's not unlike Hollywood, where the vast majority of production come from one place, so there is a lot of money and power centered in few japanese cities, companies and places. That anyone working in said business doesn't get enough in a month to feed himself or herself, it's a clear abuse of power and criminal lack of oversight and governmental and working regulations. This looks worse to me than police and government turning a blind eye to yakuza and crime syndicates. If one cannot make enough to survive, it's exploitive and should be categorized as bordeline slave labor. And even if people wanted to work with those conditions, the role of a government is to protect it's citizens with labor laws so that scenarios like those do not happen, scenarios of human rights violations that shouod not happen in modern affluent countries. But quite frankly, between the animators case, the ultra nationalist ties, the lack of interest in politics from japanese youth, and how poorly handled the corvid-19 crisis has been in Japan, it seems obvious that what japanese politics really need is a renewal and change in direction, or the country is risking going down together with times and the old traditional not keeping up with times politics and way of doing things. I'm not saying this just because I don't like how things are being done, I'm saying this because it's innevitable. The categories of people who are being so blatantly ignored, exploited and at times even reviled are exacty the people who will soon be handling the economy and being asked to pay for the pensions and retirement of those in power right now. It's a severely precarious position. I know culturally japanese are not ones to revolt and protest fast culturally, but this sort of exploitation has it's limits. At some point it'll explode, and if nothing is done, it's gonna be ugly and violent.
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