Fair enough, if they can stay in business.<p>The question is sustainability. Old institutions often reach points where failure, or nearing failure, is the only way forward. So it can be rebuilt into something better.<p>I see issues with the hyper speed that SV businesses have taken this to the extreme but it&#x27;s the middle ground that is healthy. The other extreme creates the situation where always having a safety-net no matter what negative downward problems or risks a company is taking creates dangerous moral hazards [1] which compound on each other over time to create unavoidable economic crises, as Wall st generated in 2008.<p>If you think the Japanese are immune to these moral hazards then you are denying some core principles in human behavioural science.<p>Japan&#x27;s core industry seems to be suffering a chronic illness which it&#x27;s continually trying to medicate instead of moving on and confronting the future. Kicking the can down the road, as others have mentioned. Zombie companies are just the obvious symptom as this dysfunction bubbles to the surface.<p>Reality will come to bare eventually, it has to, economies cannot remain disconnected from their own tangible output forever. The apparent stubbornness of Japanese culture to maintain the status quo will likely mean it will be the children of the current generation that will be the ones left to pick up the pieces, so you can keep drinking your tea no doubt.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moral_hazard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moral_hazard</a>