Japan

“In Japan, they, they're like, oh, we have no market share in Japan. They go, they do the same marketing playbook there. It goes from five percent of brides have a ring to 60% in 20 year, in a 20 year period, and De Beers owns 70% of that market share, right?”

“So we hired uni kids that are, that speak native, like, fluent English, so we can communicate with them, but also they're fluent, you know, in Japanese, and doing that, like, you know, our growth has been, like, TEDx, or just, like, they know the market in ter…”

“So they spend three times less per capita on healthcare and double the amount mostly on food. So, so per capita. So, so they actually put food into their healthcare budget. So I'll say that again, they spend two times more per capita on food. We spend almost l…”

“They appointed a minister of loneliness in Japan because this has become such a big problem, and so this guy doing this is almost like a, an art statement in a way about this to bring awareness to this huge problem that people are just really freaking lonely i…”

“So, like, in Japan, single-person households, so, you know, no, no wife, no, no family members, no friends, just living alone by yourself is now 38% of the population, which is, it was, that's, like, triple where it was, like, five or seven years ago.”

“And there are like Estimated two million men in Japan that are in this category for six months. They basically have not engaged with anybody in society.”

“And this guy made 80,000 dollars in a year renting himself out, and he, then he wrote a book, a memoir, called Rental People Who Do, The Man Who Did Nothing, or Rental People Who Do Nothing.”

“In Tokyo or you go to Japan and it's because they actually, most of the home builders are home manufacturers. And things are very standard. The cost of a new home build is like not that expensive.”

“In Japan, the number of nursing homes has risen nearly 50% over the last decade”

“There's over, there's tons of articles on this, over eight million IKEA's that are being given away by the government or again, sometimes for very cheap.”