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Yea, they f'd up a whole generation because of TRADITION.

There was a good video about this but the tl;dw is about this:

In Japan you're supposed to get hired straight out of school and then you'll stay with The Company until you retire.

The same tradition implies that The Company will _never_ fire people.

Japan faced some very hard times. Companies couldn't afford to hire new people because they couldn't fire the older people.

A whole generation never really entered the workforce because they never got the experience. Now they're mostly doing odd jobs and for the same reason never got married and had children.

Oopsie.



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