“If our strict measures were not accepted, then our organization could become careless and it could result in eroding the public’s trust,” he said.
They don’t think telling this guy to starve in his old age over $7 will undermine public trust? It’s undermining my trust in this official’s judgment right now!
I guess I don’t live in Kyoto so they probably don’t give a rat’s ass what I think.
I think in that culture money follows social appreciation, not value. And that is connected to obedience and ritual. It’s as if his work in those decades was service as it should be, then he committed a sacrilege.
And he’s low in hierarchy. Asians love hierarchies.
I don’t know. Maybe that work ethic is wrong, in most manga\anime I’ve seen characters struggle against it, and then maybe deliver through pure genius outside it, only to be appreciated as “barely did it”.
But they have a point too about erosion. I see it everywhere.
They don’t think telling this guy to starve in his old age over $7 will undermine public trust? It’s undermining my trust in this official’s judgment right now!
I guess I don’t live in Kyoto so they probably don’t give a rat’s ass what I think.
I think in that culture money follows social appreciation, not value. And that is connected to obedience and ritual. It’s as if his work in those decades was service as it should be, then he committed a sacrilege.
And he’s low in hierarchy. Asians love hierarchies.
I don’t know. Maybe that work ethic is wrong, in most manga\anime I’ve seen characters struggle against it, and then maybe deliver through pure genius outside it, only to be appreciated as “barely did it”.
But they have a point too about erosion. I see it everywhere.