Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Why (Almost) Nobody Invests in Japan - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1.  @badluck5647  It's not the intensity of the work but the expectation surrounding it. Japan has become so thoroughly Americanized that working at a business is not only a part of life but a social value there. For example you may not need to actually do huge amounts of work, but you do need to stay at work to show 'committment' to the company. So you might have nothing productive to do but still need to look busy because you're expected to remain in the office. You cannot under any conditions levae before the boss leaves. And if the boss goes our drinks and asks you come with, you simply must. Not doing so is a social taboo, not just a business decision. If the boss asks you to keep drinking, you keep going. If you do not, your entire social circle is in jeopardy, possibly your job. So the result is miserable feeling of no control while at work and no time after work for personal enjoyment, and crazy hours doing either insane work or mindless pencil pushing. Bureaucracy is insane, they still require you to have a fucking stamp custom made with your name because of how many documents you need to fill out throughout your life for even simple things. It seems like they have taken things that were developed to be a means to an end (doing business, paperwork) and turned them into a ritual valued for it's own sake. And the funniest part of all is that they worship these social norms that were imposed on them by the Americans after the war. It isn't even a traditionally Japanese societal organization, but a perversion of the Western one, with a lack of the history that shapes the understanding of these different aspects in society.
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