Not just Japan. China has a similar problem but the difference is they’d sooner censor people than allow them to coin a term for ‘death by overworking.’
The term “996” coined in China refers to the idea of working 12-hour shifts from 9am to 9pm six days a week.
Millennials and Gen-Z are truly the lost generation.
Imagine still living with parents in your late twenties or even early thirties because you simply cannot afford to even rent your own place. Now imagine that work pays like shit and you are busting your ass working long hours to chase an eternal pipe dream of economic prosperity. You can’t even seek psychiatric help for your ailing mental health because it’s expensive, inaccessible and oversubscribed.
For a man, being in that situation makes you downright undateable so it’s not like you can rely on the joint incomes that couples do either.
And we wonder why toxic masculinity is on the rise…
The rich have done a smash & grab on the economy and made everybody poorer as a result of their own greed. It’s a dangerous game.
xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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xkcd #2875: 2024 ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death ( unseen-japan.com )
A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan's continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.
The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity ( www.okdoomer.io )
Millenials being accused of not pumping out enough babies when we can't even support ourselves ( i.imgur.com )
"No one wants to work"? Suuuuure ( i.imgur.com )