Kineechiwah! (can't write in Japenese). Bumped into a woman that I'd meet once before in August this year. At that time she worked for an ATM company. We had a bit of a chat about using cash and how many people don't anymore. Two months later, just last week, she informs me 50% of staff, including herself, have been made redundant! …
Kineechiwah! (can't write in Japenese). Bumped into a woman that I'd meet once before in August this year. At that time she worked for an ATM company. We had a bit of a chat about using cash and how many people don't anymore. Two months later, just last week, she informs me 50% of staff, including herself, have been made redundant! So, with bank closures, reduced opening hours, removal of ATM machines from certain venues, things are speeding up! Difficult to know what to do, draw it out and keep under mattress, spend money on getting battery storage for solar panels which is considerable outlay, stock up on nonperishibles (useful for barter system as no doubt I'll be a "Restricted" at best) or just spend on having a good time whilst some freedoms left. I had a few days in Japan when our stint in HK ended just after the handover. Our small children attended the newly opened International Japanese School. Their teachers were Canadian but also Japanese. I enjoyed my visit to Japan.
It is a nice place ... to visit. Yeah, the Japanese is govt. is a lot more clever at deceiving the public to go cashless with years of discounts, safety, and other incentives before the public realizes thay have given away what autonomy they once had for the sake of convenience and saving a few yen as the govt. purposely destructs the economy. I'll be dust in the wind before the effects really hits and the kids grow into even more compliant servants of the ruling class. Watching those near my age being put out to pasture before their time, and with no options other than to wither up and die is one long Halloween ... uh ... Kabuki Tragedy ... and the tourists who help keep the scam going are none the wiser. On that happy note time to make another cup of coffee. Even at my age and once having been a 'tenured' professor, I have to supplement a shrinking pension by waking up every morning at 4:30, and prepping for another day of a minimum paying job as a token foregeign mannequin for the public schools. And I am one of the lucky ones. Future permanent foreigners are being replaced by digital textbooks and speaking test judges outsourced to the Philippines. Must cheaper and easier to control. After all, that's what institutions (as opposed to communities) are all about, aren't they? Not services. Control.
Kineechiwah! (can't write in Japenese). Bumped into a woman that I'd meet once before in August this year. At that time she worked for an ATM company. We had a bit of a chat about using cash and how many people don't anymore. Two months later, just last week, she informs me 50% of staff, including herself, have been made redundant! So, with bank closures, reduced opening hours, removal of ATM machines from certain venues, things are speeding up! Difficult to know what to do, draw it out and keep under mattress, spend money on getting battery storage for solar panels which is considerable outlay, stock up on nonperishibles (useful for barter system as no doubt I'll be a "Restricted" at best) or just spend on having a good time whilst some freedoms left. I had a few days in Japan when our stint in HK ended just after the handover. Our small children attended the newly opened International Japanese School. Their teachers were Canadian but also Japanese. I enjoyed my visit to Japan.
It is a nice place ... to visit. Yeah, the Japanese is govt. is a lot more clever at deceiving the public to go cashless with years of discounts, safety, and other incentives before the public realizes thay have given away what autonomy they once had for the sake of convenience and saving a few yen as the govt. purposely destructs the economy. I'll be dust in the wind before the effects really hits and the kids grow into even more compliant servants of the ruling class. Watching those near my age being put out to pasture before their time, and with no options other than to wither up and die is one long Halloween ... uh ... Kabuki Tragedy ... and the tourists who help keep the scam going are none the wiser. On that happy note time to make another cup of coffee. Even at my age and once having been a 'tenured' professor, I have to supplement a shrinking pension by waking up every morning at 4:30, and prepping for another day of a minimum paying job as a token foregeign mannequin for the public schools. And I am one of the lucky ones. Future permanent foreigners are being replaced by digital textbooks and speaking test judges outsourced to the Philippines. Must cheaper and easier to control. After all, that's what institutions (as opposed to communities) are all about, aren't they? Not services. Control.
Cheers.