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You have to have money to want to (potentially) consume worms. Yuck. ick.

we have sushi all the time it costs like ¥1500; this guy is full of shit

Also, yeah, the yen is weak, of course your average American tourist will be top percentile in Japan solely off the exchange rate.

one of the common things that consistently rate bikago, better believe it's expensive

Like there are masses of sushi shops all over Japan, who does my man Q think is eating in them? It's just a kinda weird thing to do so confidently state, and has reduced my confidence in everything else he says

For me the point here is that a person confidently stating very wrong (and really quite obviously wrong if you have even a modicum of knowledge/experience) things is a good reason to downgrade ones own confidence in the person's statements in general.

I don't think so. This is very cheap for an American, but works out to fairly standard US fast-casual restaurant prices assuming equivalent Japanese purchasing power. What Quantian is doing is keying on the term "flawless" to assume a comparison with high end dining.

Sushi chef omakase experiences are expensive, but cheap sushi stall sushi is widely cheap, high quality and availabe

Ah yes, US capitalism, now to take a big sip of water and look up “keiretsu”

💯 👆 Americans are queens and kings when they travel to Japan.

We had a great time visiting several cities and riding the shinkansen, but at one point I had to sit them down and explain "Most Japanese would save up and take one shinkansen ride a year. We've just taken half a dozen. This is not the typical local experience at all."

The subway sushi is not perfect! lol

I would just like to say that I really this visualization, very simple way for the econ brains to understand

Cows eat vegetables so really if you think about the cheese...

I lived in Japan for five years and had sushi twice. Convenience stores are where you get katsu.

so the same amount of money, just for location instead of size

I assume they’re talking about onigiri from 7/11

”Sushi” is cherry-picking somewhat, though. The US food system isn’t tuned to sushi provision in the same way. Japanese tacos are quite spendy for a contrast. Heck, to pick their French example, to get cheese that isn't a international war crime is kinda pricey in Japan.

A lot of it comes down to lifestyle choices that aren’t really about capitalism. I don’t think our high rate of gun violence or illegal narcotic consumption is because of capitalism 

Not sure why the healthcare spending statistic is treated as a bad thing. When the average person spends $15k a year for healthcare, it's not like those 15k goes down the drain. It goes to someone else's pocket, especially the physician's. Which is why US physicians get paid the most in the world.

No. If you go to a sit down sushi bar for dinner in Japan, it is going to run you at least ¥10,000 and probably more like ¥20,000, which is a lot of money for a local. Lunches are cheaper, but it is still absolutely an elite experience normal people do not routinely enjoy.

Or they could have been talking about the sushi you get in train station bentos, just a guess.

This is like a wildly off baseline

You can get a good amount of sushi in a station for 1100ish yen. 1000-2000 yen will buy you something of surprisingly high quality depending where you are. If you deal-shop, you can go cheaper. That's very cheap in US dollars, but converted into Japanese purchasing power, it's still reasonable.

I went to a meeting in Kobe in February 2025. I had an 8 piece sushi meal in a sit down seafood restaurant. It cost the US equivalent of $10. It was pretty good! It was not the fanciest place, but you could find sushi pretty inexpensive and good. A Kobe steak was different...$$$$