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Originally Posted by GoNative
My comment was more about the low tech nature of many Japanese workplaces necessitating many more people being employed on average than what you would find in similar sized companies in the west. More people for the same amount of work is not efficient. It does keep a hell of a lot more people employed which is good for society but it doesn't make for overly efficient businesses. Maybe your few years down in Osaka gave you a different view on this but it's what I've found up this way.
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If that is your point, then the abacus is a poor example of low efficiency. It is 100% green, emits not CO2, and has no effect on the environment.
Living right now in a society (in the US) where it takes three guys to watch one guy dig a hole, it is hard to say Japan is so drastically inefficient.