tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post4699894291214124262..comments2024-03-14T07:32:30.141+09:00Comments on Marketing Japan: Japan Economy in BIG Troublemike in tokyo rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-70330432308996615182011-04-28T22:17:46.090+09:002011-04-28T22:17:46.090+09:00Just a note to the caustic comments from Mr. Anony...Just a note to the caustic comments from Mr. Anonymous #2...<br /><br />I'm not saying it's bad that people getting their lives together is a bad thing. It's a stopgap solution to an economy that is disastrously precarious, a point made several times in this here blog. Spending creates debt and debt has a sell-by date. It's coming.<br /> <br />And socialism is a "miserable failure?" Don't know about you but the economies of Northern Europe are about the most stable in the world and their societies are educated and egalitarian. I think you're confusing socialism with communism, a common mistake by the right, who like to villainize any -ism beyond the sanctimony of capital. <br /><br />Get your -isms in order, Amigo...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-49498360329976128622011-04-28T17:11:57.704+09:002011-04-28T17:11:57.704+09:00Your argument didn't remind me of what George ...Your argument didn't remind me of what George W. Bush said after 9/11, his was kind of, "forget about everything except for periodic directed outrage" while yours is a, "don't stop living" kind of expression.<br /><br />Has Japanese society changed as a result of the tsunami like the unitedstate did after 9/11? It doesn't seem like it.<br /><br />What did strike me as similar was the Japanese goberment reacting the same way as the unitedstate goberment did after 9/11 in creating a funeral-type atmosphere.<br /> <br />When my boss at the time of 9/11 forced everyone to go outside and bow their heads at his command a co-worker rebelled by quietly muttering, "What about the thousands who are killed on the hyways? How come we don't do this for them?" I understood then that there would be a funeral atmosphere for a long time at the expense of... something(s).<br /><br />Perhaps they overdid things a little and thus the need for the "go shop" comment by Bush? Extreme social conditioning?<br /><br />I don't know, some People get confused and think things like, "There must be some kind of sane, humanistic alternative to capitalism." Only, what we have right now, at least in the unitedstate, is definitely Not capitalism, imho. <br />Maybe corporatism, or Sociapitalism? <br /><br />http://financialsense.com/contributors/jason-kaspar/sociapitalism-how-the-government-became-the-next-bubble<br /><br />But surly it's utopian, free lunches for everyone! As if.<br /><br />Also, while I found what Mish wrote to be reflective of what a lot of others are saying and likely spot on, and I am interested in money and the economy, I don't make the Mish's blog a daily must-read, he's a deflationist, isn't he?<br />Someday maybe we'll read about him in a Gary North article capitulating ?<br /><br />BTW, that is a fantastic photo you have, did you take it? It certainly isn't your western stereotypical kimono image. Wow. Do they wear this when the Japanese go to park and eat and drink with friends under the cherry blossoms? And they canceled this? Are they crazy? Or is that what happens when People become Keynesian for too long?<br /><br />"...the Japanese people, businesses and the economy are paying the price." All around, it seems, compounded even.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-65754921517459174432011-04-28T16:09:38.579+09:002011-04-28T16:09:38.579+09:00@Anonynous's comments upstairs are pretty typi...@Anonynous's comments upstairs are pretty typical of some arguments that I see that make no sense at all. Are you saying that, "The best thing the people could do is try to get their lives back in order as soon as possible as get back to work and get the economy back on track" is in some way a "bad argument"? How could that be a bad argument? And where was anything written about the LDP? Or are you reading a different article than the one above?<br />Andy's comments make sense... Sort of... No government would be great! Free Market economy! Yes! @Anonymous talks about some sort of utopia that doesn't exist and props that up as a straw man to say that our current system is bad? OK, well, what do you want to try? Socialism has already shown itself to be a miserable failure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-13432063437368432772011-04-28T15:39:10.230+09:002011-04-28T15:39:10.230+09:00Let's think about where the money not spent on...Let's think about where the money not spent on retail sales actually went. Perhaps it was donated to victims of the earthquake or maybe it was set aside for new investments required as part of the rebuilding effort. Some of it may be used for increased retail consumption in the coming months.<br /><br />I have to say I'm not so sure that less spending on retail goods was such a bad thing for the economy, though no one needs some politician to tell them what to do in this regard. <br /><br />In terms of a humanistic and sane alternative to free market capitalism, it is necessary to concede that our current system is horrible. The only way to keep powerful interests from taking advantage of people is to abolish government.Andy "In Japan"https://www.blogger.com/profile/04505038501136945817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-24588373388274599942011-04-28T12:15:45.453+09:002011-04-28T12:15:45.453+09:00Yeah, great, Naoto Kan will be gone. As if the LDP...Yeah, great, Naoto Kan will be gone. As if the LDP can fix things. They've been driving the Japanese economy in first gear towards a cliff for twenty years now.<br /><br />Your argument reminds me of what George W. Bush said after 9/11. He told we Americans that the patriotic thing we could do is shop. Shop? Such a sad and pathetic economic system we have chosen. There must be some kind of sane, humanistic alternative to capitalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com