re: I honestly thought this was a fake statistic, but it isn’t. Tokyo budget vs NYC budget

quote:

---

n the states, he would have had his cards taken and used and his identity stolen before we made it to the next stop.

---

To be fair, that's London, Rome, Paris, Brussels, Barca, and just about anywhere in the west. The UAE is probably about as safe as Japan and Korea. When KSA had an official executioner in each metro area, it was similarly safe (one of my high school associates was apparently smuggling hash into Bahrain, his dad found out, lured him into returning to Riyadh or Dhahran, and turned him in, resulting in a little choppy chop on the executioners block.) I remember a big story about a retiring executioner turning his scimitar over to his son.

But, gentle parenting.

quote:

---

It's also a fairly oppressive society

---

Uhh, they don't put up with any Open Society bull*hit. AS my son says, it's a high confidence society. You can walk the streets at 1am and not fear for your life.

quote:

---

What does NYC have that Tokyo doesn't?

---

Will the answer to this question end up getting me banned ?

quote:

---

Not true at all, Japan massively subsidizes Healthcare, Education, and public transportation.

---

So does the USA.

The argument is that they produce an actually good product/outcome, while the USA does not, relative to the dollars pumped into the system.

Do not compare Anything Japanese to. U S……they are way better

quote:

---

Do not compare Anything Japanese to. U S……they are way better

---

Except basically everything economically.

Hell, Toyota and Honda are even having trouble making reliable cars these days.

quote:

---

Absolutely and blaming it on local blacks in NYC is ignorant as hell. It’s immigrants in general that are a big issue and there’s an enormous cultural and immigration difference between NYC and anywhere in Japan. When I was there last spring there was a ton of Hispanics and middle easterners working street jobs. NYC has Chinatown, little Italy, etc. Is that popular in Tokyo? Mass immigration is generally going to involve a lot of crime as they are desperate to survive.

---

interesting watching narratives change. illegal immigration in some scenarios is considered a bad thing now to the Left.

quote:

---

I wonder what percentages of taxes just get lost to corruption?

---

Probably at least 30% is either stolen or part of some grift.

That is me being generous too.

So, are you suggesting diversity is not our strength?

quote:

---

Health care is a different topic, but the funding also comes from multiple levels. I will say that my experience (as a municipal employee, not just a tourist) was that it was quicker, cheaper, and more accessible in Japan (Osaka area) compared to Louisiana (GNO and BR area). They're also much less prone to throwing pills at things over there.

---

My company has an office in Yokohama. All of the Japanese employees had to get their BMI checked every year and if it was deemed to high, they had to pay a fine. A lot of the bigger companies there offer gym memberships and provide healthy meals as a benefit for working there.