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To: Berlin_Freeper
“a 23-year-old cotton factory worker ...spent 280,000 yuan (US$41,000)”

Remarkable.

2 posted on 08/30/2009 2:04:52 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Remarkable.

I was thinking the same thing. That's some pretty sizable savings or disposable income for ANY 23-year old.

5 posted on 08/30/2009 2:19:14 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Remarkable.

He may also have raised funds from his parents and friends. These folks are very entrepreneurial. Not everyone succeeds, but an outsized number do place bets on building their own businesses. It makes many (failed entrepreneurs) good employees, as they understand the bottom line. It's hard to figure out where this entrepreneurial bug comes from, given that Imperial Chinese history is the history of state-owned monopolies in many major industries. Maybe it's to do with the well-known East Asian (Oriental) proclivity for gambling. Most lose, but so many gamble that there are a lot of winners.

6 posted on 08/30/2009 2:50:27 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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