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[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago

Oh absolutely. In Japan for example if you are unable to work or you get removed from your career, it is socially understandable for you to consider suicide. Lots of Japanese citizens put their job before even their families or the potential of having a family.

It's actually pretty fuckin crazy what Japanese work culture does to their citizens.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

I've been reading Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and evidently they don't fire people in Japan. If they want rid of you, they just give you less and less to do until you're sitting in the office all day getting paid to do nothing, and the cultural expectation is that you quit out of shame rather than just accepting money for nothing.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

How do I get one of those jobs as a WFH employee in the United States? I'll gladly accept my shame.

[-] aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

Oh I'm so ashamed. Whatever will I do. Please don't pay me MORE money that would make the shame even greater!

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Oh no, not a bonus! The shame, it burns!

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