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It's phenomena like hikikomori, social shutouts who can't cope with the immense pressure of Japanese societal hierarchy, which has become a far more viable lifestyle (than it already had been) due to advances in technology.

Along with that came the emergence of the "herbivore men" in Japanese society, partly also a reaction to the immense pressure put on Japanese men to be "successful" in an economy that can't supply "successful jobs" to everybody. Japanese men pretty much invented that whole mgtow-thing before it became popular.

The scary angle is a comparison with John Calhoun's Mouse Utopia experiment [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM



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