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minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-29 months agoJapan is notorious for unnecessarily complicated supply chains to bolster employment. And for unnecessarily ripping up perfectly fine pavement and concreting hillsides that don’t need it. Again, to bolster employment. There are many, many, BS jobs in Japan. And they still struggle with youth unemployment. Fewer people would be a godsend.
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoIf only. US productivity is soaring but workers’ share of GDP isn’t. And we have chronic underemployment.
Japan is notorious for unnecessarily complicated supply chains to bolster employment. And for unnecessarily ripping up perfectly fine pavement and concreting hillsides that don’t need it. Again, to bolster employment.
There are many, many, BS jobs in Japan.
And they still struggle with youth unemployment.
Fewer people would be a godsend.
Very reminiscent of USA.
If only. US productivity is soaring but workers’ share of GDP isn’t. And we have chronic underemployment.