Japan is known as one of the countries with the smallest gap between rich and poor in the world, and there are "three strange phenomena" in this country where the gap between rich and poor is very small, and these "strange phenomena" may not feel strange at all if they appear in a country where the gap between rich and poor is very large, but it is a bit strange to appear in Japanese society where the gap between rich and poor is very small!
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > "first monster", and in Japan, white-haired elderly people can be seen working everywhere. </h1>
According to the latest data released by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the number of "employed elderly people" in Japan has risen for 17 consecutive years, reaching 9.06 million, accounting for 25.1% of all elderly people (36.4 million). In other words, in Japan, one in four seniors aged 65 and over is still active in the workplace. The number of "employed elderly people" currently accounts for 13.6% of Japan's total working population.
In Japan, there are many industries where the elderly are employed, especially in the service industry, such as security guards, cleaners, cooks, waiters, etc., and the scene of white-haired elderly people working can be seen everywhere.
Some people may say, what is so strange about this? Japan's population aging problem is serious, the labor shortage is serious, the Japanese government has introduced a number of policies to encourage and promote the employment of the elderly to make up for the shortage of labor.
But is it not easy for the elderly in society to rely on the sale of their labor force in the labor market for a living, and this situation is easily linked to the huge gap between the rich and the poor? Is it easy to think of Britain during the Industrial Revolution, of old China before liberation? But isn't it strange that such a situation occurs in Japan, where the Gini coefficient is very small?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > "second monster", one of Japan's best-known features - girl aid. </h1>
Aided socialization, also known as "aid communication", originally refers to the behavior of older men asking for sexual acts or other services from underage girls through money or property. In Japan, a large number of underage girls are engaged in diplomatic aid activities, and the United Nations even claims that more than 13% of Japanese girls have done aid to diplomatic aid.
In October 2015, Buquiccio, special envoy of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, conducted a survey in Japan and later announced at a press conference that 13% of female middle school students in Japan had engaged in aid transactions, and although the Japanese government denied the authenticity of its report and protested to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the severity of the aid was still not difficult to imagine.
Maybe someone will say, what's so strange about this? Japanese people have always been more open in terms of sex, the concept of chastity is relatively weak, some female high school students, female college students like to earn some pocket money through aid, what is the fuss?
Since ancient times, the development of the pornography industry has always been linked to the huge gap between the rich and the poor. In general, countries with developed pornography are either poor countries, such as Thailand, Cambodia, Mongolia and other countries, or the practitioners are mainly from poor countries, and like some countries with developed pornography in Western Europe, their pornography practitioners are mainly from poor countries in Eastern Europe.
Japan may be the most developed country in the world's industry, and the main body of Japanese industry personnel is Japanese women, and the gap between rich and poor in Japanese society is so small, which is really incredible!
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > "third monster", but the society with a small gap between rich and poor has given birth to hot words such as "social animals" and "overwork death". </h1>
The problem of overwork is quite serious in Japan and has become a major social problem in Japan. The term "social animal" was invented by the Japanese, and just from the literal meaning, people can feel how much pressure the Japanese work is.
From an economic point of view, the work pressure and hard work of ordinary workers are directly proportional to the utility of wages. In the process of selling labor power, wages bring utility to workers (satisfaction of needs), and labor brings negative utility to workers (hardship and suffering). Only when the utility of wages is greater than the negative utility of labor will the laborer be willing to sell his labor power. The greater the utility of wages, the greater the negative utility of the laborers they are willing to bear, the longer the working hours, and the greater the degree of work fatigue.
The utility of wages is related to the basic consumption of workers, and the lower the basic consumption of workers, the greater the marginal utility brought about by a certain real wage, because the marginal utility decreases.
The greater the marginal utility of wages, the less real wages the labourer can receive for the sale of a certain amount of labour-power, and the more surplus value that capital can exploit. The more unequal the distribution of income between labor and capital, the greater the gap between rich and poor in society.