And <i>how</i> different is the situation in Korea, Japan, most of Europe, North America, ???<p>Short-term capitalist optimization - where you squeeze as much work as you can out of almost all healthy adults in their prime decades - does not lack for long-term downsides.<p>Not that it helps when parents, especially mothers, are held to brutal standards in many non-economic ways. But my impression is that that's also rather universal...