:volcel-judge: :volcel-kamala:

housing benefits, money, childcare, and more!

  • jackmarxist [any]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Occupied Korea is far more of a shithole than Japan. There is no childhood there and people's lives depends on one single exam and if they fail or get lower scores than it's 16 hours workdays everyday. Why would anyone have kids when their life will only have suffering.

    • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah Japan's work culture sucks but it's more like 12 hours of work with a lot of fucking around and pretending to work, at least for office jobs. Which is only slightly worse than the US.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        According to wikipedia at least, Japan's working hours are less than the US these days. They're right in the middle of the OECD countries in terms of labor hours per worker, so unless something fucky is going on with the data Japan's fertility rate is a symptom of something else.

        • jackmarxist [any]
          ·
          1 year ago

          The problem with Japan, China and occupied Korea is that people are coerced into working overtime.

          In Japan, it's usually after work meetings or people in the office just stay in late to work and other people feel uncomfortable to leave. There are no direct restrictions but social ones.

          Occupied Korea is more dystopian because the Chaebol System requires constant suffering. So while Japan and China have moved slightly towards caring about worker wellbeing, occupied Korea on the other hand was trying to introduce a 90 hour workweek(also a 69 hour one) act last year which only died down because of international backlash.

        • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          tfw you work more hours per year than the highest average on that list :shrek-pixel-despair:

          and I still rent and struggle to survive :thonk-cri: