&gt;you decide to leave your job and start a business with your college buddies<p>I know the point they were trying to make in the article, but the primary reason this doesn&#x27;t happen in Japan is the cultural fear of failure rather than the system being broken. Once you&#x27;re in, the nanny corporation will take care of you for the rest of your life. Once those corporations are in, the government will take care of them for the rest of their life. Risk mitigation is what&#x27;s most highly valued; because of this fact, not all capitalistic logic can be applied, despite the system appearing fairly capitalist.