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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (503279)8/10/2009 3:42:00 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1574848
 
"I know a LOT of people who would, though, especially video game fanatics like me."

In my barracks, you MIGHT get a communal TV. I doubt the others would let you play Warcraft on it.

"Have you heard of a growing social phenomenon in Japan, where single men stop working and become recluses who surf the Internet all day?"

In mom's house?



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (503279)8/10/2009 7:40:16 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574848
 
"Of course I do. "

Then you are ill-informed. The problem wasn't that those things were available. The problem was, unless you had government connections, that was all you could get, no matter how hard you worked. So you wind up with a system where "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".

That is a huge difference.


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