throwaway91822

> roughly half the country did

That says a lot about about US. But I never said I was talking about US.

> I don't see how Buddhism is an answer

The origination story of Buddhism starts with a guy with the highest status and wealth, in a society of extreme inequality, leaving his fortunes behind to help everybody (hint hint).

The first ashrams where so radically inclusive, letting people from all caste and gender live as equals, that they were chased out from many villages by armed crowds. (hint hint)

If that's not clear enough, Thich Nhat Hanh literally called his practices "engaged Buddhism".

> due to foreign mafia/dictator/oligarch investment through shell companies

True, but this was allowed to happen by the current and old generation of voters.

I thought it was about destroying the planet and enabling the ever-growing financial inequality.

I studied Japanese and met maybe a hundred people that love Japanese culture.

I never met any who would approve of the sexism, xenophobia or crazy work culture. Most people love the aesthetics, literature, history, architecture, food, music...

I think you are describing a certain far-right weaboo subculture, but that's just a pocket of 4chan inanity.

I maintained a datacenter with approx 1000 hypervisors with a very small team and took few weeks to start having production workloads. The effort to maintain hardware was quite little and it was hugely cheaper than any cloud service.

Having said that, your requirement is pretty absurd. Billions of people choose to own and maintain houses and cars and cook their own food because it's cheaper than the alternatives. Nobody expects them to be professional mechanics or cooks.