Date: July 13th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: electric gaped home circlehead
The Japanese may have conquered runaway inflation by simply not importing millions of immigrants
"A pandemic, an energy crisis, the strongest dollar cycle in a generation, and escalating regional conflicts have reset which cities are expensive and which are bargains.
No city illustrates this repricing more dramatically than Tokyo. The Japanese capital's purchasing-power-parity-implied price level has fallen from 173 in the mid-1990s to just 60 today. Renting a three-bedroom apartment costs only around a quarter of New York's rate. A meal for two now runs less than in Warsaw or Prague."
Date: July 13th, 2026 2:14 PM Author: Pale bateful native
Yeah, it sucks tbh. I mean, Japan is still awesome, but when I was first there in 92-93 you'd never see foreigners outside of Roppongi/Shibuya/tourist spots. Very sad.
Date: July 13th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: Pearl 180 candlestick maker main people
I'm not really seeing the distinction. I think Japan shoud be enriched by a bunch of ragheads and buckwild niggas, just like Sweden. By any objective metric more black people = good.
Date: July 13th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: Pearl 180 candlestick maker main people
Yes. Diversity is 180 and strengthens countries, does it not? Why would you want Japan to suffer from <><><>NODIVERSITY><><>< while USA gets all the best niggas?
Date: July 13th, 2026 2:16 PM Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer
quality of life for regular people is pretty much entirely a function of societal homogeneity. material wealth barely even matters unless you are a totally useless parasite who needs welfare to survive or an old or biologically defective person who requires elaborate medical care
Date: July 13th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: electric gaped home circlehead
Look somebody, who knows who ran up the national debt by trillions doing welfare program boondoggles and wars of adventure in "the Levant" and if we don't continue mass immigration at at least double or triple the current rates the country will go bankrupt so it's just the way it has to be
Date: July 13th, 2026 2:24 PM Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer
yeah cr but i was also making the point for places outside of the West as well
even materially poor third worlders in their native homogeneous habitats enjoy a plenty comfortable life as long as they're not on the margins (economically worthless). qol for those people actually goes *down* as they get "westernized" because it introduces heterogeneous pressures
"libs" used to make this argument in sincerity, and they were correct about it