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Japanese Anime Industry In Danger Of Fragmentation
ChibiOne writes "The Asahi Shinbun has a story about the critical state that the Japanese animation industry currently faces, claiming: 'As merchandisers grow rich, the animation industry is losing jobs to cheaper labor abroad.' The article quotes Oh Production President Koichi Murata as saying: 'Unless something is done, Japanese anime will be ruined.' An animator, toiling away on cels in a tiny Tokyo studio, might be fortunate to pull in just 50,000 yen [about $500 USD] a month."
You act as if the entertainment industries are essential industries. Outsourcing is good for these industries because with P2P, the price from which anime DVDs or movies can be sold will go way way down. This is actually going to lower the price and increase the availibility of Anime to all the fans.
This has nothing to do with idealism. Outsourcing is good period because capitalism works on competition. Outsourcing is good and if you don't like it you can move to China.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
Thank you for stating the obvious. I guess you are trying to advertise your home country.
Don't worry, soon millions of Americans will be moving to China, trust me.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
I think outsourcing for high tech or high skill industries are bad because people invest their entire lives going to college and getting degrees. These arent the type of jobs that anyone can do and this is a matter of national security as well because a country generally should protect its high skilled knowledge producers. These people are the people who innovate, the same people who created the atomic bomb.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
How do you know? The culture has very little to do with the ability to produce a good story with good animations. Also lets not forget they can always hire Japanese to create the story and just hire Chinese to create the graphics
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
This is the usual marxian regurgitation and one that doesn't take into account that the "workers" negotiate the exchange in value for delivering whatever skill or experience that has a value to "the rich".
While realizing the basic truth in that, what you obviously crave is the circumstance in which some elitist, unnamed, monolithic entity does something that you can't do on your own; Stupidly trying to screw "the rich" to your betterment.
To sum up - "The rich" don't stay that way by being stupid and you're obviously not wealthy.
Mod me troll, if you must, I can't help it.