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stale2002 on March 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japan's Universities Are Failing

The problem of Japan is caused specifically because of its make work culture.

Jobs are focused on shoe face, NOT on producing value.

What matters is not how good you are it is how many years you have put into the company working 80 hour weeks.

It is unsurprising to me that a culture not focused on producing value wouldn't produce much value.

sbierwagen on March 3, 2017 [–]

Shoe face?

Brockenstein on March 3, 2017 | [–]

You know, shoe face, the classic make work gambit where you employ people to makes shoes with their faces because it's inefficient you have to employ a lot of people to have any sort of production. It's pretty common in the East.

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