Even in the west that one doesn't stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share

I have some friends in Asia who are obsessed with it as well though.

In the west - yeah? Obviously third worlders also believe in various miracle healers and televangelist preachers and such, but those countries too have scientific minds and communities and bodies that practice evidence-based, aka "western" modern medicine.

When alternative medicine works, we call it medicine.

Any resource you could recommend for someone who wants a better understanding of this?

Yep, same in the UK. We've abandoned our elderly and seemingly can't wait for our kids to leave so that we enjoy maybe 10 years of watching TV and not working before we die.

In other, less 'developed' countries the family is a unit. The elderly help with the infants (which has been proven to be mutually beneficial), while the rest of the family works or helps maintain the household. There's way less likelyhood of abandonment or lonliness in old age, which in my country is endemic.

Jaysus

Does the self-proclaimed shaman actually resolve mommy issues though? Asking for a friend.

I mean yeah thats a good indication, but thinking about it, many asian countries also have this same feeling. So is it a westernized thought process or just "people are stupid as fuck" problem. I lean on the latter.

Worst format ever. It should either be dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd

Goodness gracious, it gives me an aneurysm every time I set up a new computer with the en_US locale or have to fill out forms with that date format.

This is just the madlads in the US

this is just the USA, not the whole west

date +%s

It's not just, but very much an american thing to say. It's almost every video on youtube."i bought this power tool for $4 from china and man it's bad." All the comments are: hahaha china only makes shit, who could've guessed.

You can buy the best literally everything from china. But it's not gonna be cheap. But then it's like:"that's too expensive for something from china." I'm worried when something is "American made" because it's an absolute gamble and the chances are really high that they use their weirdo measurements where you need magically sized tools to taje it apart.

I've recently been getting some stupidly high-quality stuff from China for insanely good prices.

Essentially, I've been buying stuff from Walmart that has been marked down over $100. What I think is happening is no-name Chinese companies try to make a high quality product and sell it for a premium, but then nobody buys it because of the reputation no-name Chinese companies have. Then, they still need to sell their inventory so we can get great products at great prices.

These bluetooth headphones from a company I've never heard on straight up shit on the Sennheisers I used to have that cost significantly more.

They literally own the means of production

Have you seen "Crazy Rich Asians"?

That could be rich people from anywhere.

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