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Japan is a democracy. And yet payment processors from another country are powerful enough to bypass Japans political system.
The American pornography industry has solved this problem by 1. recognizing that there is higher risk, like "oh no honey that $5.99 charge from onlyfans on the statement must have been fraud! do a chargeback." and 2. recognizing that the optics of selling pornography are bad and not everyone wants to assume what is essentially an externality (bearing that optics cost) without being paid extra for it. So there are providers that handle "high-risk" payments like that. Or they take crypto.
One of the cool things about the fact that companies are profit-seeking and really like making money, is that when they turn down what looks like an opportunity to make money you can be pretty sure it's for a good reason.
What does this have to do with Japan?
The fundamental problem addressed here is that these Japanese people, one way or the other, are complaining about how our culture is influencing them. And your response is to tell them to be more American?
Presumably speaking, the Japanese people would want a Japanese solution here.
I don't live in Japan but I think I can at least get the gist of this guy's argument.
> One of the cool things about the fact that companies are profit-seeking and really like making money, is that when they turn down what looks like an opportunity to make money you can be pretty sure it's for a good reason.
Historically speaking, for profit companies of different cultures misunderstand and even abuse the locals. Because you know, profits to the foreigner and reasons that the local doesn't care or even may be opposed to.
For the locals to feel threatened by that (and claiming that democracy is at stake) is... Well, a trope at this point. It keeps happening so we probably should be sensitive to the gist of the argument.
This isn't an "American solution", it's an example of ways around a problem with the industry.
I'm not sure how refusing business (which, if these costs weren't real, would reduce "profits to the foreigner") is supposed to contribute to "misunderstand[ing] and even abuse."
I guess I can understand why they're sensitive, but they have multiple homegrown sets of payment rails they can use. If they want to use the foreign ones they can reasonably accept that a large multinational is "less Japanese" than the Japanese ones.
There is no democracy, never has been, it is an illusion of choice maintained by the oligarchs to keep people motivated just to get exploited more by whoever wins their next ballot.
I don't care about DVs