White Man In China (2024).

In a recent video on Twitter, he compared the China of today to 2019 and was completely shocked at the speed to progress and change. Says it’s like stepping into the future.

1 - Automation: From trains to taxis to purchases - everything is done seamlessly with super Apple Pay.

2 - EV: 30%-40% of the cars are fully electric. You can get Teslas but you have Chinese brands that offer sedans for $10k.

3 - The air is much cleaner. Partly due to EVs.

4 - People are more respectful of societal norms. There is better service everywhere you go.

5 - Less foreigners, even in touristy areas. Most white people are actually Russian.

6 - In factories, robots do the work in contrast to the perception people have in the US of China just throwing cheap labor at every problem. Factories set up their own e-commerce platforms and sell directly on China’s TikTok.

7 - It feels like over the past 5 years, everything by in China just got better, while everything in the US just got worse.

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SpiderFarmer,
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China sounds appealing to move to at times. I’d still be a poor bastard and I don’t know a lick of Mandarin/Cantonese/Etc, but I’d worry less on losing the roof over my head and the food is 🔥.

quarrk,
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Coming to Finland from the US, I was surprised at the relatively higher use of machinery at things like construction sites. For example, using a bulldozer for moving small piles of dirt that I think in America would have been handled by a couple guys with shovels. Environmental question aside, the use of machinery in this way is good for labor QoL and longevity. Americans don’t realize how much harder they work for less pay.

RyanGosling,

the use of machinery in this way is good for labor QoL and longevity

I’d want to see more about this. In the US, automation and technology are used to threaten workers to comply with shitty labor laws, and when they are actually implemented, the human workers are usually never cared about after being laid off. I’m curious to see the differences in attitudes and implementation in China

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