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Jesper Koll
Personal blog · japanoptimist.substack.comeconomicsbusiness
Jesper Koll writes Japan Optimist, a personal blog at japanoptimist.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jesper Koll's Substack when discussing Japan's economy: employee loyalty and the salaryman versus superstar CEO pay gap, and the Bank of Japan ending negative rates. The comments cite it as a source.
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Japan analysis and insights - capitalism that works.
What Hacker News says?
I think a strong loyalty towards a company will work only in a society like Japan: companies are culturally committed to taking care of them employees until their death. In the meantime, the income gap between ordinary employees and the executives is small. Per this article ( https://japanoptimist.substack.com/p/japan-reality-check-4-i... ): "The biggest difference between the Salaryman CEO and the Superstar CEO is,…
Comment linking /p/japan-reality-check-4-in-praise-of
on “On loyalty to your employer (2018)”Submitted 潤日Run Ri – Escaping from China to Japan as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttps://japanoptimist.substack.com/p/go-for-it-ueda-sensei Japan will not just end the world's last zero rate anchor, but will sooner rather than later begin to focus on containing rising inflation risks
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on “Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years”Submitted Japan Megatrends: Demographics catalyze real structural change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Japan reality check: what is Japan's economy good at? as a story · 1 points
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