2025-12-10 17:42:27

Three and a half decades. That's how long Japan tried rescuing its economy with endless stimulus and flat interest rates. The mission? Keep legacy giants breathing. The result? Suffocated everyone else.

They wouldn't pull the plug on failing corporations. Zombie businesses stayed on life support while startups couldn't find oxygen. The strategy that was supposed to save everything is now killing everything.

Sometimes the worst decision is refusing to make one.

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QuorumVoter

· 2025-12-13 10:23

Japan's past thirty years have been a cautionary tale. Supporting zombie companies instead of letting them go has only suffocated new opportunities.

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RugPullAlertBot

· 2025-12-12 06:11

Japan's past thirty years have been a textbook example of failure... Supporting zombie companies has resulted in suffocating new growth.

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ForumLurker

· 2025-12-10 18:12

This set of operations in Japan is truly a textbook-level negative example. The cost of supporting zombie companies ultimately falls on ordinary people.

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WalletsWatcher

· 2025-12-10 18:12

Japan's last thirty years have truly been a negative lesson; supporting zombie companies has resulted in killing the entire ecosystem.

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Rugman_Walking

· 2025-12-10 18:11

Japan has, over the past thirty years, literally doomed itself. Clearly knowing that zombie companies should be allowed to die, yet stubbornly refusing to let go, as a result, new blood can't survive at all.

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BearMarketBro

· 2025-12-10 18:06

Japan's past thirty years have really been a cautionary tale. Supporting large corporations has instead killed the entire innovation ecosystem. Everyone has now realized this, right?

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SolidityStruggler

· 2025-12-10 18:00

Japan's last thirty years have been truly typical... Everything was done to save old-established companies, but as a result, the entire ecosystem was destroyed.

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GateUser-7b078580

· 2025-12-10 17:56

In Japan, over the past thirty years, data shows it has been a textbook-level failure case. It has been propping up zombie companies, ultimately suffocating the entire ecosystem... However, our Web3 is pretty much following the same logic—miners consume too much gas, and small projects simply can't survive. The inevitable collapsing mechanism is right there.

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OldLeekConfession

· 2025-12-10 17:49

Damn, Japan has been a textbook negative example for over thirty years. --- Propping up zombie companies without letting go has suffocated the entire ecosystem... This is the stubborn illness of traditional economics. --- Not daring to let go and cut ties, in the end everyone is doomed. Honestly, this is even harsher than not making a decision. --- New startups simply can't survive, and old monopolies still need to be supported. The logic is flawless. --- Always prolonging life without killing, ultimately leading to overall decline. Sorry, but this is too typical. --- Thirty years, brother. An entire country was dragged down by decision paralysis. --- The starting point was emergency rescue, but it turned into collective probation. Truly despairing. --- I agree with this view. Sometimes letting go is actually a harsher way to prolong survival.

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