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With full health coverage, people in Japan can pursue simpler jobs and get by, with more free time for artistic endeavors.


Most other countries have full health coverage, it's really just the USA that has such a broken health system.

That doesn't mean we do more art. I am considered unusual because I sketch, badly. I think it's this "why would you do something you're bad at?" attitude in our western culture that kills it for us.


And, yet, a Japanese mangaka living in squalid poverty with shitty health is practically a stereotypical meme.


oh, they have full health coverage.

hell, i had full health coverage when i was an unemployed foreigner in japan.




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