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Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto

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592 points wyclif | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.278s | source
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renewiltord ◴[23 Jun 25 15:27 UTC] No.44356764[source]▶
Beautiful. I think a lot of what makes Japan wonderful in this respect is:

* Poor economic mobility

* Individual compliance with the social contract

* Liberty to run small businesses

* Good land use laws

Perfect mobility is awful because all the capable people get to maximize earnings. The better The Sort (as patio11 calls it) the more capable people move out of doing things with high positive externalities.

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1. ergsef ◴[23 Jun 25 15:59 UTC] No.44357112[source]▶
Who are "capable" people? Do you think if the cafe owner was born in the US they would be working at Google?

Lots of people in North America work in jobs with positive externalities (teachers, nurses, etc) and they're generally treated like shit compared to 9-5 office workers. I don't think the issue is that the former is group is less capable, they're just not sociopathic resource-collecting robots.