Beef Bowl Capitalism (how deflation leads to social problems in Japan)

mutantfrog.com

21 pointsjbm7 comments

Where does "deflation" come from? Not the article's headline, and it's not really fair to put a commenter's words in the author's mouth.

For what it's worth, the government is fruit to phase out the more abusive workplace situations that are noted in the article.

What does fruit mean in that context?

For 10 points I'm going to guess "free"

Ripe? Ready?

the mature reproductive body of a seed plant.

For what it's worth, I meant to say:

"For what it's worth, the government is trying to phase out the more abusive workplace situations that are noted in the article."

I have no idea how that got auto-corrected into "fruit".

(For those curious, the specific acts they want to change are the rules for keeping a store open at night with only one employee.)