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roywiggins on Feb 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

This probably helps: "Several companies have even benefited from the widely-accepted Japanese practice of adopting adult male workers into the family bloodline to ensure an unbroken succession for the business"

gumby on Feb 14, 2020 [–]

This technique has saved monarchies (and "lesser" families) around the world for millennia.

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