@Nudhul @sun @HoneyBadgerSupreme

I once had a room full of students back in 2016 going on about how bad "Brexit" was.

As a counterpoint I asked the room of 100% Japanese to visualise Japan as part of a pan-Asian economic alliance.

Furrowed brows.

This would allow workers from all iver Asia (China, Korea, Vietnam, etc etc) to come and work wherever in Japan.

Uncomfortable shuffling.

They yen would be replaced by the Asian Dollar used across all member states of the pan-Asian economic alliance.

NOPED THE FUCK OUT.

And newly aligned countries could join and their workers could come and do jobs and send money back to places like Thailand, Cambodia, North Korea etc etc.

Literally a room full of outrage.

This was 2016.

2024 I had teenagers (internationally educated Japanese kids) telling me the death penalty was preferable over life sentences as it cost the tax payer less. An argument shared by victims of sexual assault etc (he raped me as a child and now I've grown up, my taxes are paying to keep him fed and "safe" what the fuck...).

Interesting times.