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I’m sorry to hear about all that. I hope you and your union can win the case, if not find a path for you and your wife to go through the ordeal in one piece, cause it sounds like you’re basically trapped financially because of the repayment clause of the subsidy.

I imagine this is also partly the responsibility of the local government, given that they would be responsible for building the town to properly support the expected population growth? Though it also seems like it would be difficult for them to do much in really rural places in the short term, where there already is a lack of the necessary structures to provide these jobs, not to mention sustain these structures themselves.

And it’s fine not to dox yourself by naming your employer. This sort of rug-pulling move is reminiscent of companies here in North America though. To be fair, given that remote working is a fairly new phenomenon, it’s understandable that there simply isn’t a lot of protections in place against such nasty behaviours. If the different levels of governments want to decentralize to better spread the population around the country though, perhaps I’m being naive, but actually encouraging remote working, and making it a safe route for people to take, would be a really good path forward for that.

Thank you for sharing your story and perspective. I’m sure it’s been quite hard on you, so hope the conflict will be resolved soon, and satisfactorily.

I can’t day I’m very well-informed on the issue as an outsider, but I’ve heard that the central government (at least in the recent past) have tried to encourage people to move out into inakas in an attempt to slow down or even reverse the migration trend. Some carrots, like housing subsidies if I remember correctly, are even offered, but there hasn’t been many sticks, eg actually encouraging able firms to keep their jobs remote, from what I know.

So I guess my question is, has this sentiment / tone changed from the government (esp since the LDP has had a few leadership changes in the last few years)? I did hear of the intention to have a second capital, likely in Osaka, but that seems only tangentially related.

An individual switching is certainly ineffective, but if the switch affects other people in their household, especially children, then they will grow up knowing that there’s a better alternative out there and potentially bring that to their workplace, especially in smaller companies. And it doesn’t have to be a complete replacement at the workplace to start with either; it could be the adoption of a standard that doesn’t require the use of big tech products, where people can use open products that support the open format.

This line of thinking is why big tech has a strong interest in putting their products into schools, as it shapes the expectations of schoolchildren of what tools are available.

I can do fullstack but only do backend at work. And that one time I said useState feels like a really dated solution, which was a really recent comment I made, the gasps I heard from the room was palpable and people had to calm themselves down.

It’s a bit of an need-this-off-my-chest in making this comment, but I really abhor the thinking that we live in a world where it’s every person for themselves, and so we should focus on just taking care of ourselves and others will sort of just take care of themselves. Those who step out of that lane are bound to be taken advantage of, and end up bringing ruin to themselves and those they love, and so anyone who does so are naive, idiots, or both. Honest and kind people never get what they want or need, and never achieve anything meaningful in life, because they’d be spending time for others when they could be spending those times on themselves.

And these sort of thinking seems to be pretty universal. It doesn’t matter it’s America, some country in Europe, or even in Asia.

To a lot of these people, this is the truth of the world and its rules. Anyone who doesn’t follow are simply unaccepting of the truth, that the world is a cruel place and so we should be ruthlessly focused on the self. When a friend is about to make the wrong decision, it’s their choice and that it should be respected, and they shall deal with those consequences, and maybe I’ll help if I decide that I have the time and energy for it.

I… just hate such a world. Why must we go at the hardships of life all alone? Sure, we can’t solve the world’s and everyone else’s problems, and especially when our own plate is full, and the feeling of just watching someone else suffer and not being able to do anything gives us a strong feeling of guilt and shame, and that sucks, and it can ruin our day or week and thus make it harder for us to solve our own problems. But it doesn’t mean that each person should be the sole person to be responsible for their own happiness; we should all share an amount of responsibility in everyone else’s happiness. Maybe that way, we’d all feel a lot less lonely in this world that’s chock full of people.

A person decided to go on a murdering spree. Retribution as justice may help some victims find peace, and serve as a warning to others who dare emulate, but it doesn’t address the root of the problem: why did they decide to kill? Some news coverage will end up digging up some tragic backstory, but we rarely seem to try to do things to prevent those tragic back stories to exist in the first place. Restorative justice is a good direction for future prevention, but I believe we need to be able to recognize the seeds that lead to tragedy and find ways to minimize their reproduction. Law and Order enforced through an iron fist will only hold for as long as the fist is still held. A society that knows how to reach out to others to help others before they succumb to hopelessness and crime, by fostering trust between people, seems fragile and reliant on honesty that’s difficult to prove, but would that not maintain Law and Order for longer, given that embers are generally identified early on and be safely handled?

I’ve yapped. Sorry for just dumping a long reply on your comment.