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pervocracy
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(The subtitles include translations of the Japanese dialogue. Also, I'm sure the company is putting on a bit of a show because they're being filmed, but regardless.)

The thing I think is fascinating about this video is how many of the comments are "oh wow, Japanese movers are so precise, so considerate, they work so hard"

and how few put together the pieces that they can do this because there's about eight people working on this move! These movers aren't individually packing each dish because they're of staunch moral character, but because they have time to do it! When I moved in the US, the moving company sent two guys and they weren't lazy, they did as much as two people could reasonably do! Which is 1/4th as much!

And having never been to Japan I don't want to make sweeping statements about how it actually works there, like I said I doubt this is a typical or low-budget experience, but this is not the only video I've seen of "hard work" that was secretly a video of adequate staffing.


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Here's another one! So many comments about how US kids eat processed junk, so few noticing that US school kitchens don't have big rows of people washing and chopping vegetables!

Japan made it a political and financial priority to provide decent school lunches, and the US didn't. It's so frustrating seeing people try to take that down to the individual level with comments amounting to "American kids only want to eat pizza because they are inferior in character."

(have you eaten US public school pizza? trust me, nobody with options wants that)


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Even though Supersize Me is obviously super problematic for many, many reasons, one scene that really stuck with me back when it first came out was the interview with the Head Cook at a school saying that her most frequently used tool was a box cutter because her job had been reduced to opening boxes and heating the contents.

It made it so obvious to me that individual choices don't enter into the equation.

Around the same time that movie came out, I was eating lunches from my school's cafeteria and that generally meant a plate of "chips and gravy" (aka fries with beef-flavour gravy). That's not a typical British meal or anything, that's just what the school had. The cafeteria didn't even stock enough food to serve all the students. If you showed up late to lunch you just didn't eat. Totally bananas when I think about it now.

Oh Supersize Me, AKA look I don't think it's anyone's business whether a public figure has a problem with alcohol... right up until they start claiming their liver problems were caused by hamburgers.

I don't recall my school cafeteria ever running out of food but they did have this extremely 🦅🤠🇺🇸 two-track system. If you were in the free lunch program or paid the minimum you got the main line food which was really small portions of low quality mushy casserole, but if you had money you could go to a second counter and pay more to get a brand name pizza or fries instead. So nobody got good food, but poor kids and rich kids got different kinds of junk food.

(Well, poor kids and middle-class kids. Rich kids went to the fancy private school across town which probably did have good food, but what would I know about that.)

I have a soft spot for breadtangle pizza actually. But I tend to enjoy incredibly bland and textureless foods, as long as I’m getting some small amount of that awful drug casein in it.

So much of this is just showing what can happen when you prioritize things other than cost-cutting, which is extremely not where America is at right now, so these things that we could absolutely have (and sometimes things we did used to have) look like utopian magic!

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