This will happen to Canada Soon
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What will happen? The 80 % crash in the stock market that took 35 years to recover or the 70% crash in real estate that still hasn't recovered
Damn interesting.
I can say I work harder than I otherwise would to pay for the activity that is the subject of this board.
I suspect most everyone here does, also.
It is also interesting that when oldie movies such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High is shown to the younger generation (and the same would be true for less intellectual ones such as Porky’s, Private Lessons. Valley Girl, etc.) the younger generation is bewildered by the emphasis on not being a virgin, and in fact being sexually experienced, in High School.
Many funny, yet wise, commentators like Adam Corolla speak of the disbelief that young people are also not obsessed with getting a car at 16 and moving out of the house at 18.
I do believe that many of these Japanese factors are creeping into North America. Personally, I think we simply make it too hard and too unaffordable for people to get new things and have new experiences. Everything from the high costs, the expectation that everything you try must be perfect, to the fact that all the young people are expected to check in with their parents several times a day until their parents die of old age.
I also can’t really imagine what the world is going to look like in 20-30 years.
But things are unpredictable. If Japan is as bad as he describes, how the hell are its bonds and currency safe havens?
I can say I work harder than I otherwise would to pay for the activity that is the subject of this board.
I suspect most everyone here does, also.
It is also interesting that when oldie movies such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High is shown to the younger generation (and the same would be true for less intellectual ones such as Porky’s, Private Lessons. Valley Girl, etc.) the younger generation is bewildered by the emphasis on not being a virgin, and in fact being sexually experienced, in High School.
Many funny, yet wise, commentators like Adam Corolla speak of the disbelief that young people are also not obsessed with getting a car at 16 and moving out of the house at 18.
I do believe that many of these Japanese factors are creeping into North America. Personally, I think we simply make it too hard and too unaffordable for people to get new things and have new experiences. Everything from the high costs, the expectation that everything you try must be perfect, to the fact that all the young people are expected to check in with their parents several times a day until their parents die of old age.
I also can’t really imagine what the world is going to look like in 20-30 years.
But things are unpredictable. If Japan is as bad as he describes, how the hell are its bonds and currency safe havens?
They have millions of empty houses. But they let next to no immigration so they probably will remain empty.
I think the younger generation is realizing that car, homes, marriage, kids is all nice but if you need to work 6 days of 12 hours for it to make it... It's not worth it.
The same will happen here in America. The younger generation can't buy homes and have a regular life unless both in the couple work their ass off extra hours... Just to barely make it. You end up never having a life, never seeing your kids, just working and working... To end up at 65 with a retirement where you can't do much anyway. You are physically diminished and health cost a fucking fortune...
Who wants this life?
The same will happen here in America. The younger generation can't buy homes and have a regular life unless both in the couple work their ass off extra hours... Just to barely make it. You end up never having a life, never seeing your kids, just working and working... To end up at 65 with a retirement where you can't do much anyway. You are physically diminished and health cost a fucking fortune...
Who wants this life?
In the same vein as the two quotes mentioned in the video:
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
-- Epictetus
and isn't Warren Buffet also known for his frugal habits?
In Japan they teach their kids to read and listen critically, rather than to express their opinions freely.
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
-- Epictetus
and isn't Warren Buffet also known for his frugal habits?
In Japan they teach their kids to read and listen critically, rather than to express their opinions freely.
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Ah yes, but another way to achieve few wants is to have many things.
Checkmate Epictetus
Checkmate Epictetus
Life is strange. When I was young, I bought $200 t-shirts and wanted everything. Now, I wear old navy and want nothing. It’s not a money issue either because I could pay cash for a Lamborghini and it would not affect me financially one bit.
All of the points in your posts are damn good.
We make it way too difficult for young people to really make it.
With respect to both studying and working, there is a huge percentage of the population in the Western World, including Japan, who have time for little else than studying and working. Usually they pair off and create a high-income, wealthy household. They sometimes have to almost be told to spend some of the damn money. Redistribute it, please.
You and I sometimes disagree on this, but I see more restrictive corporate policies in the U.S. than you do in Canada. Companies protecting themselves against lawsuits discourage intraoffice dating, especially among unequals. So you get less marriages originating from relationships at work.
A not small percentage of the younger guys doing this activity fit the mold. Good money, but a lot of studying at school and a lot of hours at work. They buy themselves some good sex. Good for them, as far as I am concerned.
So we end up with this mismatch that has been present in Japan for a while. A group of upper-end workers who make damn good money, but have little time for anything, including buying stuff. That upper-end group is at least half, often more, female. There is no marrying-up since there aren’t enough males above them, and all they have done their whole lives is compete against their male peers.
And a huge group of people who find the rungs of the upward mobility ladder too high, and they get higher every year. They ain’t getting to the top. And they don’t have much money to buy stuff.
Japanese are terrible at accepting other cultures. Decades ago I went to a Japanese only erotic full-service massage parlor in Bangkok. I saw Japanese only and was like Fuck You. I am going to get the White Man’s version of Wilt Chamberlain just strolling through Whites Only stores in Kansas when he played ball there. God Bless him, he integrated the city as they took the signs down. I didn’t have that effect, obviously, but the nice Thai girl snuck me in and fucked me, giggling at how the slippers didn’t fit.
Pretty sure there is not a Canadian in the country that would contemplate a Canadians Only brothel. So I take with a grain of salt that Canada will ever become like Japan. I worry about that more with the U.S. and our current anti-immigration stance.
Yeah but that also leads to rigidity and pressure to conform, which incidentally Japan is known for.
Freely expressing opinions results in free exchange of ideas, which is more educational in my opinion.
The west is for some reason enamoured with Japan, but in reality their culture sucks lol.
I don't like attracting attention to myself. In this time of huge wealth inequality, its downright dangerous. I am happy to drive my 2015 BMW for another 10 years.
