Japan is a developed country.
and may I add, the majority of the Japanese people are literate and educated.

My son works in Japan and use the bullet train often. He says they respect punctuality.

Nice

As @dalefvictor suggests, it's more important to the rich and powerful that they widen the wealth gap than it is to them for you to have a good life.

we cannot have thing like this because the rich have to have more and that means there is not enough left for everyone else. The more they get the less for everyone.
No one I have heard of has come up with the thought that if we had more people working: roads, trains, research, that yes this would cost, but it would also make many more people richer. If someone could get on a train and go five hundred miles in an hour, then what people would be available for work at places farther away from their homes.
Coal is dead, but the people who live in the regions where this was once profitable, are not available for work farther away, there is no way for them to get there. What would happen if a person could travel some distance for work. They would have the ability to live in places where the cost of living was lower, they would be able to bring money into the regions where money is lacking in the economy.
There is a limit to how much money the rich can control before it becomes worthless. There is a limit to the work that can be done by people who live close to where the jobs are.
I live in Astoria Oregon, a small town almost on the Oregon Coast. We are a destination area, people come here so they can retire in a great place. The property values have shot up in recent times and the average person is paying more than fifty percent of what they make just for rent. The number of homelessness is raising as it just cost to much to live and work, so many people have just quit working. It is easier to live in a group and share resources than it is to pay rent and live like a human being.
People are coming here, as they always have, and buying homes so they can live in them for a month or two a year. The rest of the time the house just sits there, being cared for by someone working for a management company.
I know there is a better way to do this, to make the economy work, we have a chance to do this, but I do not think things will change so there will be more people living in tents and being homeless, they are not wanted as they are no longer able to make the rich richer so they become worthless.
Thoughts?

Its called conservative republicans