Japan Is Doomed

Good old Japan Probe did an article recently about Japanese Salaries, and how much various professions make. Now whilst I’m all for enjoying your job over getting money, I thought it had quite a few interesting entries I wasn’t expecting. Note that the way the team behind it got the data was pretty rubbish - they asked one person from each profession. But poor data has never stopped me before! I’ve only kept the interesting ones, the rest are available on Japan Probe’s article. All pay is in USD so everyone sort of knows how much it is.

New TV “talent” $9,000
Surprisingly low, really. I suppose by talent they might mean people who appear on game show programs and have to try eating horse ears or something.

Stuntman $20,000
Again, another surprise. This is possibly the most dangerous job on the list and yet it’s not very well paid. To be honest, I think I’d rather do the next job on the list for double the pay…

Ice cream salesperson $40,000
It’s not enough! Ice Cream is on of the most important products in the world! It’s part of a balanced healthy diet! (Carbohydrate, Protein, Sugars, Starch and Choc Chip).

Portrait artist $50,000
Probably not the ones who sit along beach piers and boast of their hilarious ability to make you look weird.

Creator of food samples $70,000
What an awesome job. It’s not clear, but I assume it’s the people who produce the plastic food that sit outside restaurants and so forth. I think they deserve the money, those little plastic bowls of Ramen look delicious

Takoyaki shop owner $100,000
They deserve triple what they make simply because Takoyaki is the best food ever. Much better than Ramen. Wait, hang on…

Ramen store owner $300,000
Boo! Although if you can get Takoyaki at the store then that changes everything. Someone should invent TakoRamen. Maybe I should.

Manga creator $500,000
Good grief, I was expecting them to make a 10th of this. I assume this guy probably makes the Pokemon manga or something, because if everyone who draws those things make this much I’m going to drop out now and start writing Japan Is Doomed: Cute Animals And Fighting Ninjas 5000.

So then, if you make Manga you will earn twenty five times as much as a stuntman. That’s just not right, and for that reason, where is “Junten Volunteer”? Probably not in the top 40,000. Oh well, one day…

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