Show me someone who admittedly seems to know a lot about Japan, but not so much about East Germany:
But the most efficient of these measures were probably easier to implement in the recently post-totalitarian East Germany, with its still-docile population accustomed to state directives, than in democratic Japan.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse
So... East Germany ceased to exist 35 years ago. Even if we accept that the people affected by the degrowth discussed in this article are the ones who grew up during the DDR regime, it doesn't rhyme well with the fact that East German states are hotbeds for neo-Nazi parties, which by all accounts should be anathema to a population raised in a totalitarian state dominated by the Soviet Union.
And if there's a population almost stereotypically conformist to the common good over the private will, isn't that the Japanese?
I'm open to input on either side, I admit I don't know too much about these issues.
LWer draws dumb conclusions from a single observation, and Gwern of all people whale on them:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cptCCykKbdaJ8Hjc9/were-witches-infertile-mentally-ill-women?commentId=sZJsJbYWZGAkB7Eww
"Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point" etc.