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My Experience in CHINA: Cost of Living, Wealth Gaps & Capitalist Design · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about my experience in China so far. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give a full breakdown.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give a full breakdown on market Mondays, because at
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  Speaker 2: that time I'll be here for a week already.
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  Speaker 1: But I've been here for a day and it's interesting, Well,
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  Speaker 1: what's interesting?
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  Speaker 4: Curious?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing that I noticed is that nobody speaks
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  Speaker 2: loud publicly. Nobody. It's almost like Truman Show, where it's
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  Speaker 2: not in a bad way, but it's like everybody's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get used to America normalizes things to you so
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  Speaker 2: when you land INFK, you hear everybody screaming, they running,
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  Speaker 2: the cab drivers that somebody argue with their baby, mom's
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  Speaker 2: on the phone. I landed like at first, I thought
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  Speaker 2: because I landed early in the morning, so I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's just early in the morning. But then throughout
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  Speaker 2: the course of the day, I notice nobody's like yelling,
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  Speaker 2: nobody is speaking loud, very low temper. Another thing I
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  Speaker 2: noticed is everybody. Nobody's in a rush to go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the middle of the week, and everybody's just
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  Speaker 2: and it's just taking their time and it's just patient.
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  Speaker 2: I say, like, once again, you gotta remember I used
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  Speaker 2: to work in Manhattan for ten years, so I was
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  Speaker 2: taking the subway three times a week, rush hour traffic,
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  Speaker 2: people bumping good at it, like get out of my way,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know what I'm saying, Like so you used
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  Speaker 2: to that frenzy. But I'm just like, yo, everybody's just trying.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody nobody's doing that. Another thing that I noticed, man
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to this is a market Monday's conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to the young lady that was driving me.
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  Speaker 2: She's from China. You know, there's twenty electric vehicle companies
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  Speaker 2: in China, and I was asking her. I was in
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  Speaker 2: one car. I'm like, what is this? She named after
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  Speaker 2: got the name of it had it had three D
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  Speaker 2: monitor screen, the seats it was like a van seats,
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  Speaker 2: massage seats. It looked like a Maybach spreader at the
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  Speaker 2: company I never heard of. She said, there's twenty different
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  Speaker 2: Chinese electric vehicle companies. Twenty she said by D is
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  Speaker 2: the biggest, but she was like, no, there's twenty. There's
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  Speaker 2: twenty different ones. I'm like, damn, that's crazy as hell.
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  Speaker 2: I also noticed that there's grocery told me like, there's
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  Speaker 2: grocery stores and every mall.
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  Speaker 1: M hmm yeah, yeah, huge African population here. Really, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in fool strong.
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  Speaker 2: So that's this is the manufacturing capital of the world
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to like home goods and all that.
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  Speaker 2: So they was like the Africans set up three hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand Africans and they set up shop because they're doing
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  Speaker 2: business back and forth. They send the material back and
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  Speaker 2: forth to Africa. Yeah, walk into the showroom. Black art
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  Speaker 2: all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm art and very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me more, not early, not necessarily, what you've been
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  Speaker 2: what you would have expected, what you've been programmed. Propaganda
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  Speaker 2: is a real thing. Like I said, I'm having full
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  Speaker 2: report after week, but you know you kind of get
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  Speaker 2: a gauge of things after the day.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been it's been very interesting, bro. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: a great so far now having a good time for sure.
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  Speaker 2: The technology. Everybody's just very polite, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's one of these things and it's cheap. Like
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  Speaker 2: the girl was telling me how much you pay for
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  Speaker 2: rent and she said, she said two thousand for rent,
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  Speaker 2: two thousand for for a one bathroom. Two thousand damn money,
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  Speaker 2: which is yin that they change. So I did the conversion.
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  Speaker 2: It's one hundred and seventy five dollars in the city
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  Speaker 2: you're in now, or.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, one hundred and seventy five cash. Bro.
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  Speaker 4: This is the problem with printing money, shipping that in
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  Speaker 4: fact into other countries because then now the value of
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  Speaker 4: the dollar goes down, and now you have to wipe
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  Speaker 4: away the middle class to offset these losses. It sucks, man,
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  Speaker 4: Like we built other countries up to tear ours down,
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  Speaker 4: and then we get told our country is the greatest
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  Speaker 4: on earth and it has not been that for a
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  Speaker 4: long time.
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  Speaker 2: And you gotta and you gotta have a conversation about
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  Speaker 2: forced inflation. Inflation is one thing, but how much of
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  Speaker 2: it is forced inflation based off of capitalism? Greedy capitalism?
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  Speaker 2: Because if they could have, if they can have two
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars rent and extremely efficient society, there's no trash
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  Speaker 2: clean obviously. I might know, you know, China highways. Everything
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  Speaker 2: it looks you know, it looks like how you think
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  Speaker 2: it would look. Yeah, I'm like, damn, what the hell?
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  Speaker 2: So then I started thinking like, okay, well I saw
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  Speaker 2: a closet and the closet was sixteen thousand dollars, and
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  Speaker 2: they said, my my entior design ha said, that same
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  Speaker 2: closet in America's eighty eighty five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: It is this for eighty five thousand, Like mermaids come
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  Speaker 4: out of it, Like, yo, these classes cost a lot
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  Speaker 4: of money.
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  Speaker 1: These closet room.
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  Speaker 2: Like when I say a closet, like a whole entire room, okay,
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  Speaker 2: got you okay, with the island, with the got you cold,
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  Speaker 2: all the whole thing, right. So I'm just like, yo,
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  Speaker 2: it's just really really interesting as far as like we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the price of cars, right, Like, they can't
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  Speaker 2: allow these cars to come into America because it will
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  Speaker 2: crash that the auto the automotive industry.
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  Speaker 4: Yahmn cars are like what twenty eight thousand something like
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  Speaker 4: that US.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what keep in mind, that's what taxes
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  Speaker 2: added on top of it. Yes, yeah, right, So man,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, we have a full breakdown on market mondays.
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  Speaker 2: But so far it's been pretty interesting, pretty eye opening,
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  Speaker 2: and on a certain level, pretty alarming. Because she was
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  Speaker 2: like she I told her how much like average rent
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  Speaker 2: in America is, and she was like, her question was
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  Speaker 2: to me was she's never been to America? She said, well,
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  Speaker 2: how do you how do regular people pay that? How
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  Speaker 2: do they survive?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: My, that's and now now it all makes sense. Now
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  Speaker 2: I understand why people are walking with no care in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Now I understand at twelve o'clock everything shuts
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  Speaker 2: down for mandatory lunch, and then from one to two
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  Speaker 2: everybody takes a nap. Told you, I understand why you
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  Speaker 2: can be stressed free on a certain level. Right, because
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  Speaker 2: you're paying two hundred dollars for rent, you're paying twenty
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  Speaker 2: five hundred dollars for one bererom and you're only making
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  Speaker 2: five thousand dollars a month, You're going to be stressed
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  Speaker 2: out for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's an income.
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  Speaker 1: It's high.
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  Speaker 4: Oh corrections Chinese one Japanese.
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  Speaker 1: GM just for investigative Chinese.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, backslash six j for those who trade the Japanese
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  Speaker 4: yan on thinker swim with oh schwab love y'all. But
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  Speaker 4: this is done by design, like you can ruin the society.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to confessions of economic hit Man, all the
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  Speaker 4: sanctions that we used to put out on other countries
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  Speaker 4: have somehow made their way back to us. I don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: And this is like coming from a person who is okay,
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  Speaker 4: everything costs too much now, like you eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars for a closet.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred and sixty thousand dollars in two thousand was
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  Speaker 4: a price for a good home. Like think about that.
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  Speaker 4: Like when I graduated high school in two thousand, if
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  Speaker 4: you got a two or three hundred thousand dollars house,
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  Speaker 4: you were great. So but just why I keep telling
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  Speaker 4: you guys, you have to have an international that's a plan.
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