just have more foreigners Japan
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couple days ago I saw a post here about Japanese governor saying they need more foreigners to fill labor shortage. lol they don't have labor shortage problem, they have wage too low and unstable problem, surely the problem will go away with more foreign labors
So like here in the US. The "worker shortage" is really just a shortage of workers who meet all their ridiculous requirements but are willing to put up with shit pay and conditions they're offering. But god forbid these fat, entitled employers be willing to train someone who doesn't meet their laundry list of requirements. Nope, they just want that worker to fall into their laps and demand Big Daddy government give them an infinite supply of illegal labor when that doesn't happen.
DEGREE.
MINIMUM 5 YEARS EXPRIENCE.
$12.50 AN HOUR.
I remember seeing a job listing asking for 5 years experience in a specific programming framework.
Someone applied for the job and put it up on a forum. They got rejected for not having the 5 years experience, only had 3. He sent back a response stating: "I started making the frame work 3 years ago, no one has 5 years experience with it."
Yes. The current temp worker program is neither being used for what it was intended (an internship program for students) nor to alleviate the worker shortage. It's basically a scam benefiting cheap companies and the middlemen who bring them workers. Farms are the example they always use to demonstrate the worker shortage - and I think some of these people in the video would never do farm work no matter how much you paid them - but the "open secret" of the temp worker program is that they bring in foreigners for ANY job, like restaurant and assembly-line workers. Those are things that Japanese would definitely do for the right pay and those jobs are being taken by the foreign workers. It's ridiculous.
One minute in: a guy hurt himself on the job and glorious socialized medicine didn't solve all his problems? This can't be real, right?!?!?!?
does japan have socialized medicine?
They have public insurance. There are no income requirements for public insurance so it's kind of like "Medicaid For All" with a sliding scale. Copay is based on age (10% if you're over 72, 30% otherwise), and premiums are based on income with the poor paying about $10 a month and most others paying $100. Service prices are fixed by the public insurance. There are yearly maximums after which the government pays YOU the difference. There are doctor shortages in some rural areas, but otherwise service is on par with the US and much cheaper. Exceptions would be for super rare disease treatment, and things that are normal in the US like your own private hospital room are considered luxury amenities there.
Hospitalization and surgery are the largest expenses people still worry about, so there are also private insurance companies like Aflac that serve as sort of gap insurance. They pay you for any hospitalization even outside the country, and pay a fixed amount that covers more than your copays, so lot of people have that too.