Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese

Post by dragonwriter » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 3:28 AM UTC

twoquestions wrote: post #48

brightball wrote: post #35

A big part of this that's unpopular to discuss in current culture is people actively avoiding going to a church. Whether you actually donate and believe everything that is said isn't really a factor in whether or not you can show up every week, meet other people in your community, participate in events, be there for each other at during the hard times in life, have fun activities for your kids where you can meet othe…

The problem with church is that it demands submission in exchange for community. Not only believe this way, but dress this way, eat this way, vote this way, and if you're in any way different you're as cut off as you would be if you stayed home, and if you're having hard times you must have done something to deserve it. I'm from Ohio so it may be different up here, but that's my experience.

Post by nojvek » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 1:17 PM UTC

VLM wrote: post #193

FilterSweep wrote: post #175

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From a young person's perspective who has seen older coworkers get divorced and observing remarkable fallout from divorce, why get married then? Please don't take the question as an insult, its a query from a young developer who scarcely has relationships longer than a year.

Mostly to raise kids in a stable manner. And the finances are much more stable. You need someone you can have fun with; little league games are not romantic, but are fun. Ditto doing the laundry or yardwork or cooking dinner or whatever. We have similar outlooks on hobby / life / work balance. We're also both descended from 40+ yrs of marriage couples, so the risk of divorce seems much lower.

Post by nojvek » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 1:28 PM UTC

nabla9 wrote: post #64

logicchains wrote: post #36

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Because for some reason many commentators find it perfectly reasonable to use absolute GDP growth as a metric for comparing Japan to America, ignoring the fact that America's population is growing at around 3% while Japan's population growth is around 0% or negative (which means all things being equal one'd expect America's GDP growth to be around 3% higher). In terms of GDP growth per capita, which is the metric tha…

Japanese government debt to GDP ratio is 229%. Japanese government has kept lights on with 15 years of constant deficit. Fortunately most of this debt is internal and in local currency (no fear of hyperinflation). But Japanese are getting old. In a few years Japanese insurance companies and Japanese savers turn from net buyers of government debt and stocks into net sellers. It's interesting to see what happens then.

Post by greggman » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 8:00 AM UTC

onecooldev24 wrote: post #43

greggman wrote: post #28

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In Japan prostitution is effectively legal. It's not legal to have penis in vagina sex but everything else is legal and you can bet that all of the places that claim they provide everything but that also provide that service as well. There's tons of "red light" districts as well as call up places. Even if you don't want sex Japan has a culture of hostess clubs and "snack" clubs. A hostess club is a club you pay to ha…

I agree, but in the US its still illegal. Having such services will only help, rather than cause further isolation.

Post by bargl » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

khedoros wrote: post #206

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Do they have a name or some sort of label to easily identify the group so I could do a search for something similar in my area?

And...they've both left the company. We've been having a lot of layoffs recently, along with significant turnover.