same concept. Japan is a nation of people who share a common bond. Thinking your responsibility ends at your houses fence is already adopting an atomized, American view. When Fukushima happened there were elderly volunteer groups who demanded that they be sent to clean up the waste to spare the youth, not just their own grandkids, everyone's. It's why when an earthquake levels a city there's no panic and looting in the streets.

There is a whole national responsibility from young to old and the other way. This transactional language of talking about old people as a political class, of support as "subsidies" is already being stuck in an entirely different economized, weird mindset.