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<hr>Even if someone does prior research and then turns up and is faced with something they dont like (ie Japanese apartment renting system), why shouldn't they be justified in complaining about it? <hr></blockquote>I can't point out the illogic in this statement any more clearly than you've already made it. Let me give it one more go.
1) X wants to come to Japan.
2) X does extensive research and discovers something he doesn't like, but comes anyway.
3) X complains about it.
Why should he feel he can complain? He already knew the problem existed and came. Go ahead and complain. It's your right, X, but you KNEW what to expect!
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<hr>Why should a company own an apartment so they don't have to keep paying this dead money?<hr></blockquote>Again, you obviously don't even understand the most basic concepts here. They own (or rent) the apartments specifically so they don't have to pay the "dead money"! Employees keep drifting in and out, so there is turnaround and no periods when people are not occupying such places. What is it about this concept you didn't understand?
Moreover, these apartments are usually old ones and in low-rent or low-tax districts, and often very close to the company itself.
steve,
I see you have resorted to more childish sandbox debating strategies -- name-calling. If you can't be an adult, who is going to take you seriously?
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<hr>You wanna change the whole renting culture of Japan, eh? Be my guest. I would think there are bigger windmills to tilt at. <hr></blockquote>Trying to change the system is tilting at windmills. You just B!TCH about it. That's NOT attempting to change it.
Popular forum support? FOUR people! Well, you may see that as a majority, but I also see 3 others here (including myself) that have had other things to say. Your popularity margin is thin. Just what is it that you are so hopping mad about, anyway? You're a "man of the people", you say. What people is that? When you can explain that without the immature brandishing of names like a kindergartener, I'll take you seriously.
I have no problem with you not taking me seriously Glenski, I often don't take myself seriously, and certainly do not take you seriously.
Telephoto on the other hand makes a valid point, simply asserting the right to complain (as I did) and have others chip in with the complaining if they so agree. This- as you admit- is his right. So let's just leave it at that, a simply difference of opinion. Telephoto and myself believe its fine to bitch about something that annoys us, even if we can do nothing about it. You on the other hand do not like complaining about a situation that is unchageable. Fair enough.
And so (hopefully) endeth this long thread.
I just have to say that this delightful little post has made me chuckle at the end of a very boring day at work!
Thanks
It's all about TIPPING UP under the feudal master-vassal system.
Japanese claim there is no TIPPING in their country, but there is. You tip UP instead of tip DOWN.
That is, you tip the doctor when you want a recommendation to a surgeon and you tip the landlord to get into an apartment. You don't tip the waiter or the cab driver.
That's it . In sum.
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