This essay argues that while a small number of executives enjoy high salaries, most employees are so overworked that they lack even the capacity to think about others.
It questions how the media can expect such workers to act selflessly during disasters under the banner of electricity liberalization.

2016-02-04

In the previous chapter, I wrote that those who merely enjoy high salaries behind walls completely shut off from consumers exist.

In reality, however, such people are only a tiny handful of executives.
Most employees are so thoroughly exploited that they have no spare capacity to think about others at all.

In any case, how do the Japanese media—which have continued to cheer on electricity liberalization—imagine that such employees could possibly take action to save others in times of disaster?

Such a thought never even occurs to them.
That is the true state of the media in Japan, or rather, throughout the world.