[bottlepalm]

With full health coverage, people in Japan can pursue simpler jobs and get by, with more free time for artistic endeavors.

[marcus_holmes]

Most other countries have full health coverage, it's really just the USA that has such a broken health system.

That doesn't mean we do more art. I am considered unusual because I sketch, badly. I think it's this "why would you do something you're bad at?" attitude in our western culture that kills it for us.

[bsder]

And, yet, a Japanese mangaka living in squalid poverty with shitty health is practically a stereotypical meme.

[lucyjojo]

oh, they have full health coverage.

hell, i had full health coverage when i was an unemployed foreigner in japan.