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I agree with this, do you find it as jarring I do, because right conduct should be honourable, shouldn't it? It's hard to think of an honourable act not being right action. Honour is inherently pragmatic, it's employed to avoid moral ambiguities.
Japan and Caldari alike? This had not occurred to me, I'm trying to think why not.

The zaibatsu (the old Japanese family dynasties) which could be the analogue for the old Cladari families, were partially dissolved at the end of the war by SCAP; inadvertently creating the keiretsu. SCAP also imposed the Dodge line, including tax reform, fixing the exchange rate and stopping uneconomic government intervention.

Roosevelt saw the zaibatsu (industry tied to finance) as a monopoly, unhealthy tied to the military, inefficient and inherently undemocratic. Theoretically at least it's not unreasonable to think that the Galente might have had similar objections concerning the Caldari Corporations.

In the event the dissolution freed manufacturing to team up with other remaining bits of the old zaibatsu. They traded stock with each other to raise capital while keeping dividends nugatory; organising sweetheart deals and supply chains. The freed banks keiretsu (Kigyō shūdan: horizontal) got into bed with industry who borrowed from them allowing them to operate on the basis of dept rather than equity reducing operating costs. This was the accelerator of the post war growth not a cultural disposition.

On the other hand the US worked with the Japanese government and corporations to destroy a thriving labour movement, released from an authoritarian regime, that had grown vigorous since the end of the war, this led to serious wage repression. In effect the US stimulated the reemergence of a Japanese corporate oligarchy.

Reasoning by analogy is inductive it's about broad generalizations, these two cultures are in fact very different...

Well a bit, yes - I can see that the Japanese stuff is actually very interesting.
Humm, I think you're right. But was it this that the Caldari oligarchs feared?

I don't really understand why the Caldari made the choices they did. Was the cost of entry too high economically? Did internal tensions arise between the different caucuses to produce their hawkish attitude, or, was it, as happened in Japan after WWII, the fear of an emerging, newly enfranchised, class able to apply pressure through direct action: occupations and strikes? Are all these question interconnected in some essential sense?*

That 'If' depends on the faction you deal with doesn't it? If you understand their internal factions you know not to deal with the practicals for whom 'straightforward' is an extra, the practicals are ironically not that pragmatic.


edit: *perhaps they were just scared of having to bail out Athounon.