What if You Could Erase Your Life and Start Over? | Craig Mod

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Safety Nets Foster Hope

• Japan's social safety nets create a strong sense of security and possibility.
• This feeling contrasts deeply with the inequities Craig experienced in American university life. Transcript: Craig Mod Know, and that was sort of what was the traumatic part of university was seeing people who came from obviously resource heavy places. It just the shock of that, the inequity of opportunity distribution in America really knocked something loose in my, like really shook me. And coming to a country like Japan, I think I could have gone to like Sweden and had probably an identical experience, you know, just coming to a country or even like, you know, the UK in The early 2000s was probably somewhat akin. It's a little more weird now, but there was something akin to this happening if I was like studying in London. But just that sense that the people, the strangers you pass on the street are taken care of is a powerful thing. My friends weren't even taken care of, nevermind the strangers back home, you know, and it's just, you just go, wow, okay, that's, this is possible. It's like really hopeful. I mean, it's really, really, really astounding. And part of what I think has kept me here too, it's inspiring to be near that. It's inspiring to live in a place that takes care of the people around you, you know, that you feel like there is this thing bigger than us. I mean, what's the point of building these societies, building these cities, if there aren't going to be, if those resources, and there is such an abundance of resources, this is the Thing that kills me about when we talk about contemporary stuff. And I mean, really, it's just talking about contemporary America, is this inability to recognize the insane, vast, absurd amount of resources that could easily be deployed in such A way that even in the States, it feels like it does here. That would be so easy to activate. And it's just funny that doesn't get activated. And it's one of the things that I think can be depressing unless you are in (via) ^rwhi886720685