Why is the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan being treated like a national crisis? Are there legitimate health concerns involved or is it more related to culture?
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They don’t work, they don’t really consume. Health concerns are surface level, if there was a pill that made them go to work and buy things when they get home, they would be force fed. Culture does play in to why they’re despised but not why it’s a national crisis. It’s simply that a too great proportion of hikikomori would start creating problems for the way economies run, they effectively live like the elderly and we all know about the demographic issue of a rising proportion of elderly. Working-age people choosing to become functionally like the elderly, albeit with fewer physical health issues, is just making that issue speed up. We can’t have that, they must work, they must consoom.
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