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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: 0.217s | 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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Dracophoenix ◴[23 Jun 25 16:58 UTC] No.44357727[source]▶
> Poor economic mobility

Maybe you mean poor job mobility for office work. Economic mobility as a whole is high enough for whole towns and villages to become desolate as former residents decamp for the cities.

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1. anigbrowl ◴[24 Jun 25 06:05 UTC] No.44363269[source]▶
That's not what economic mobility means - it's the ability to move upward (or being forced to move downward) through different income brackets, or more simply from working to middle or middle to upper class. It's not associated with geographic moves; indeed lack of economic mobility is a reason people move, in search of economic opportunity, but often find their increased income consumed by increased living expenses.