Japan & the refusal of work

[Doug Henwood]

Reading all the press lately about "parasite teens" - the Japanese 
kids who live with their parents, scorn work, and spend $1,000 on 
small-run designer t-shirts - I was wondering: is this some version 
of the refusal of work so celebrated by autonomists? Is the long 
slump the country has been experiencing more the result of a 
breakdown of labor discipline than more conventional economic 
mechanisms?

Doug