I think unless this particular minister is somehow willing to go against the grain or is particularly imaginative, I think the conclusion has been pretty much written already.

Of course we should keep an eye on what happens, especially the minutiae of what they discuss, their motivations. The financial papers tend to be brazen about this sort of thing (wsj, ft, and the Japanese one that I don’t know lol).

Yeah, but will Japan’s UBI give them that sort of bargaining power? Seems highly unlikely tbh.

You got a loicense for that Zuck?

We retained 80% plus. Seems pretty good.

Will the UBI be enough, or will it be used to ensure nothing about the Japanese economy’s relationship with it’s workers will change?

They’ve always been heavyhanded on that front, they manage a huge population and a standard police force can’t do all the enforcing for them.

It’s hard to separate out what the media tells us - for instance I thought I’d been tricked by fake news when I heard that Russia was banning cigarettes for people born on a certain year and below forever. But it turned out it was true!