[AdamSelene235]

The billboards in the subways of China are not covered with ads for Pepsi or movies but rather with ads for the latest mills and lathes. Means of production not consumer items are what these ads emphasize. The train platforms are covered with books for sale. The most popular topics are business books usually translation of American books on how to succeed in business.

The last time I took the train from Shanghai to Beijing 4 people attempted to start a business with me.

The first question out of an urban Chinese mouth is often, How much do you make? Sometimes followed by, "I can top it, come start a business with me."

The jackhammers and arc welders run 24/7 in Beijing and Shagnhai. The city is lit up by the ceaseless construction. Street signs measure the level of background noise and provide a readout in decibels.

[optik_b]

What is interesting is that China the former communist nation actually has a rawer form of Capitalism than we do. What is the tas rate in china compared to the USA?

[TopQuark]

And of all tall construction cranes ised in the world today 40% are in Beijing and Shagnhai.

[TopQuark]

ALl the while we, Americans, focus on... prices at the mall and infantile preoccupation with sex.

When a married ---- excuse me for being so outdated --- living together couple of young adults wants to buy a house, they want a house of their parent, not the house from which their parents has started. An average house built today is 40% bigger than that at in 1950 --- and yet our papers are full of complaints that "fewer people can afford housing."

Our literacy declines but we want the same salary. And then we complain when the corporations prefer the Chinese labor to ours.