Chapter 393: Overtime

At dinnertime, Masayoshi Kishimoto and Rie Sakai sat next to each other at the round table in the small dining room on the first floor. She favored the finest champagne from France, while he favored the finest white wine from China.

“I had originally asked Saki to have dinner with me tonight, but I didn’t realize she said she had to work late. She works overtime until nine, ten o’clock every day, and when she gets home, it’s already eleven, two o’clock late at night.” Sakai Rie, holding an original top quality French champagne glass with a gold spout above her right hand, said nonchalantly.

“What’s the problem? It’s hard to believe that it’s your first day to realize the working condition of Japanese office workers?” Masayoshi Kishimoto asked bluntly in return.

“How bad it is for your skin! Japan’s lessening of children is also caused by some of you capitalists exploiting and squeezing.” Rie Sakai said bluntly.

“I won’t deny what you said. Even if young people are tired after a long day, when they come home at eleven or two o’clock at night, they don’t have that good mood and energy to do that again.

Sleep is more important than anything else. Even a little idea to do that, but also have to move to the weekend. As for some older, thirty-something men.

Letting him come a second time in one night would be an old struggle.” Masayoshi Kishimoto put the glass of white wine under his nose to smell the distinctive alcoholic flavor of that sexually charged Chinese baijiu.

“I believe that it’s not that people don’t want to, but they are forced by the reality of life. Sexless marriages are gradually increasing in today’s society, and they are also forced to do so.” Rie Sakai took a sip of champagne with a slight tilt of her head and said.

“According to this argument of yours, shouldn’t there be less overtime for everyone, or better yet, a nine to five?” Justice Kishimoto couldn’t help but laugh at once and said.

“That’s right. This would be able to reduce the number of people who die from overwork each year. Not only that, but it will also be able to promote childbirth and alleviate the problem of Japan’s oligonization.” Sakai Rie hadn’t really appreciated the cruelty of real life, so she idealized it on paper and said.

Masayoshi Kishimoto drained his glass of white wine in one gulp and said, “Let’s not say that a person’s monthly income will be reduced by half, let’s say one-third!

In Tokyo, an average young office worker’s monthly income, let’s say a 240,000 yen, or before taxes. After taxes are deducted, the amount of money you can get your hands on is only about 190,000 yen.

After multiplying this by two-thirds, the monthly income is 120,000 or 130,000 yen after tax. If you cut back on rent, utilities, and other expenses, I’m afraid you’ll have trouble making ends meet.

Of course, a person can definitely get by with a little bit of hard work. Love, marriage and children are even more nonsense.

As for those who have taken out loans for thirty-five years and still bought a house, you have reduced his income by one-third in one fell swoop, so what are you going to let him pay the mortgage for?

There are also children at home who attend private schools or are about to enter university, so what should they do? People eat grains and cereals, it is inevitable not to get sick.

Not to mention major illnesses, even minor illnesses such as fever and colds cost money. Japan’s health insurance system requires private individuals to bear 30% of the cost of treatment.

If you don’t work overtime, you are guaranteed to find another part-time job. Isn’t this just a disguised way to work overtime at a different place? Instead of switching workplaces like that, it would be better to simply work overtime directly for the original company.”

Sakai Rie was instantly rendered speechless by the rebuttal. Masayoshi Kishimoto had neither lectured about fierce competition, nor had he said any macro data.

He put it all into practice in the lives of ordinary people, making it easy to understand. This income level in Japan, is still considered the middle class, most people’s living conditions, all representative.

“Then there is no solution?” Rie Sakai asked thoughtfully without lifting a finger.

“There is only so much wealth that society can create, and it is absolutely impossible for everyone to have a share in obtaining abundance. To put it cruelly, there are things that can be counted with a calculator in hand.

Hayate complains, but only verbally. Her hard work was rewarded. Overtime work in large corporations was paid for.

Small and medium-sized enterprise employees, who make up the majority of employment, work overtime without overtime pay, and it’s also a normalization.” Masayoshi Kishimoto placed the empty wine glass in his hand on the tabletop and said.

“Hearing you say that, you’re still quite conscientious for a capitalist.” Sakai Rie said with a smile or not.

“Of course. My company is the conscience of the industry. High income, good treatment, complete protection, and paid vacations and so on.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said with a thumbs up on his right hand.

“Then why do I still feel that Saki’s complaint is still being a cow?” Rie Sakai asked rhetorically.

“That’s your personal opinion. My company’s active departure rate for regular members tends to be almost 0. What does that mean? That means my company is good, and people don’t want to jump ship voluntarily.

This is neither want to work more overtime, not willing to lower wages, not willing to live a hard life, under the sky that there is such a good thing? I just got back from Shanghai, China.

Even the Chinese are now working overtime to make money. They say that if you watch TV for three hours a day, you can’t earn more than 3,000 soft dollars a month.

The average wage in Shanghai is just over 1,000 soft dollars. The people who can get 3000 soft dollars a month, that one is not working more than ten hours a day? Who is not physically and mentally exhausted after a day’s work?

From this, it can be seen that these people would rather work more to make money than waste their time on those meaningless things.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said with vigor.

“Chinese people aren’t lazy!” Rie Sakai snapped.

“You believe what the Japanese right-wing media says nonsense. It’s not just the Chinese, in my opinion, the vast majority of people in developing countries aren’t lazy, they just don’t have opportunities.

No investment, no projects, no employment opportunities, no jobs, and for some people, even if they want to work more, they don’t have anything to do.

There is nothing to do but live, or live. Some of the average young Japanese nowadays are afraid that if they don’t work hard, they won’t have a job in the future.

A large number of people would then appear to be competing for 80% of the low-paying jobs. On top of that, either they will be uprooted to work in China or in other developing countries.” Masayoshi Kishimoto asserted.

Sakai Rie couldn’t believe it, and was truly a bit shocked. It was the first time she had heard such words. She had always thought that even if the Japanese economy was bad, it was still one of the developed countries, far surpassing those developing countries.

“If you don’t believe what I’m saying, then let’s let time prove it all!” Masayoshi Kishimoto swore.