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China understander explaining China: imagine a Mcdonalds

Lots of bullshit details here.

China expert was in China for a whole 18 months as an anglo expat english teacher. expat english teachers are famously known to learn much about the cultures in which they live. in no way do most of them make mostly expat friends, go to expat bars and eat at western slop restaurants

First thing they noticed about China: the macdongles is different! Surely this offers some insight into the asian mind.

The difference: I'm sure we've all seen the old redditesque urban legend where someone's dad prides himself of not cleaning up after eating, because being a messy dickhead "creates jobs". apparently, the chinese are a whole nation of redditor dads, which is now a socialist virtue. because there's nothing more socialist than creating work by wasting people's time, especially in a country that could maybe hire people to reforest the desert or work in a solar cell factory.

personally, I don't eat at mcdangols, whether in china or elsewhere, but I use their toilets frequently so i've been inside their corporate-imperialist embassies many times. chinese maccy-eaters are in no way more messy than westerners.

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  • if you shit on the floor someone will have to clean it up. good for the economy to shit on the floor. this increases gdp

  • China isn’t playing by capitalist rules

    What rules? Where is this rulebook that dictates the proper procedures for fast food restaurant cleanup under True Capitalism? Fucking libs always mistaking capitalism for some morality play.

  • It's wild how someone could possibly misinterpret McDonalds playing at being a real restaurant with waitstaff in some countries where it can pretend to be a fancy foreign luxury brand instead of the absolute worst, bottom of the barrel fast food you can possibly find that it is in the US, as instead being a make-work program like some US states do with gas stations needing to have dedicated gas pumpers on the payroll.

  • This is kind of a restating of the apocryphal Friedman quote about how a work gang in China should use spoons instead of shovels if it's a jobs program. This seems to be the extent of western understanding of how Communism is supposed to work.

  • Maybe it is better to spread the wealth rather than just concentrate it at the complete top. It's not as if those people are contributing more to the production than those who are bussing the tables.

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