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What’s really odd is that this is an article at all.

In a world where billions of things happen every day, how does a garden-variety franchisee contract dispute in Japan become an article in the New York Times?

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Because it helps one of the narratives they've been pushing for at least a decade: "business all bad, people being exploited, we are their/your champions", never mind any actual truth.

There is so much exploitation going on that surely they can find something that's actual exploitation.

If they did then they'd be ruffling feathers on some alpha predator they'd rather not piss off.

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