Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan ( warscapes.com ) 60 points by marsrover 3 hours ago | hide | past | web | 22 comments | favorite brilliantcode 3 minutes ago I feel like this is the future for tomorrow's generation. As artificial intelligence's economies of scale proves to be far more seductive than exploiting human labor, unskilled white/blue collar labor will disappear. As jobs become scarce like they have become in Japan and Korea, intense competition will inevitably produce 'losers'. Losers in the context of a structural pressure imposed on those that fail to keep up. I feel like there's a connection between neo-Confucian societies and hikkikomori. It's also a rising phenomenon in South Korea. reply salich 36 minutes ago I appreciate the article--I spent about a...