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> Sure, because there are worker rights and we do not keep people working at night unless there's a reason.

Part of this is low wages, but the population density also means you can easily find people who'll work the night shift. Or sometimes the store owner does it.

But no, they aren't like Europeans who think workers should have the right to work five hours a year.



"Five hours a year" is a gross thing to say. Surely we should emulate the Japanese, where death by overwork is a joked about phenomenon


Don't get all your news from 2000s stereotypes. There was a fair amount of reform for that in the last decade.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AVHWPEJPA065NRUG

China is probably the better example for long work hours right now.


> death by overwork

Stop reading tabloids




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