fighter wrote:Monk,
We are dealing with the clever Japanese here. They can build another Tokyo in a few months.
With what though? You need money to make money. They used to trade income from their their Nintendos and Toyotas for oil, uranium, industrial metals, and everything else that their diseased little island didn't have. They need money to rebuild those soon-to-be-hazardous factories, and knowing the timetable of repaying and how much money they already owe (highest per capita debt on earth BTW), no one is going to give them loans. The Arabs got loans because everyone knew they would pay back in oil the next day, but the Japs have nothing to offer if everything at home is defunct. The Japs are literally Gypsies now and everyone knows it; no one is going to give them shit. China and Russia will split their professional class like how the Americans and Soviets split the Germans, and someone will be charitable enough to keep the rest for cheap industrial/work purposes.
That's the problem; they're fucked. Completely. No amount of intelligence will make up for someone who is homeless and unable to repay a simple debt. All the Asian countries are screwed that way; no natural wealth and total reliance on recently-learned skills to survive - it's like modern day prostitution; at some point the hoe will break a leg and when that happens her career is over. These Asians and their hyper-corporatized manufacturing based economies were at the mercy of those precious skills, which are useless if they cannot stand on their own without the world buying their shit. These little chinky niggers can't even live off their own land, they even ate all their fish.
