[larnmar]

What’s really odd is that this is an article at all.

In a world where billions of things happen every day, how does a garden-variety franchisee contract dispute in Japan become an article in the New York Times?

[forgingahead]

Because it helps one of the narratives they've been pushing for at least a decade: "business all bad, people being exploited, we are their/your champions", never mind any actual truth.

[TeMPOraL]

There is so much exploitation going on that surely they can find something that's actual exploitation.

[openfuture]

If they did then they'd be ruffling feathers on some alpha predator they'd rather not piss off.