Looks like your dictionary is not up to date! "Crime" is a word that only applies when your net worth is not high enough.
Not fully yet, but heading there head first, yep
It absolutely is. Have a look at the definition of authoritarianism, China checks all the boxes.
Yeah, MFA is pretty standard these days. The only apps I know that do something different are the big ones. Steam, Google, Paypal...
It makes no sense to go and maintain your own MFA system as a smaller company.
Not really to be honest. They're an authoritarian regime, but they do a lot of social policies. It's a weird mix but not a new one.
Well, you're already saying "we", which implies you share that net worth with someone else! That'd be 450k/head, and no one is a millionaire!
It is definitely not the average european city experience. For a comfortable one-person appartment (if you want more than one person apartments, then it's worth is shared between the occupants, of course, and ends up cheaper per person), let's generously say 70m2, then you'd need the price per square meter to be more than 14k€ for it to be a million euro home.
That's way above average, unless, again, you're looking at city centers, which are always going to be expensive no matter the country.
So, if you live in a european city, not in a city center, and your street has housing costs above 14k€ per square meter (even, conservatively, 10k€), then your city is an outlier, not the average experience.
If you have a source for this (and by that, I mean a source on the rate of cars bursting into flames in China vs in other countries), then I'm interested.
But most likely you're pulling this out of your ass, and your only reasoning is "cheaper = shit quality".
Not sure where you get that claim from. Even here, in the Netherlands, where the housing market is through the roof, it's not that expensive to own a basic house (maybe it would be in Amsterdam but that's far from the average european city experience)
Unless "basic" for you means 4 bedrooms in the city center.
Of course, there will be edge cases of industries that have not improved their margins over the years. But the fact that prices follow inflation, and wages do not, is enough information to generalise that businesses are just greedy as fuck.
Do you really think that wages are low because higher wages would make the businesses fail? Wages are low because businesses have no incentive to raise them in an employer's market, that's it. They make higher margins and keep the difference.
"Takes away lane of road from motorists" is a wild way to say "Created a bus lane". These people need help.