12/16/23 - But what if our economic got better?
“Help! My cafe’s been turned into the public bathroom of the development by all these grandmas and grandpas!
Like the title says, as the owner of a community cafe, I’m facing something that’s giving me a lot of anxiety. My cafe is right at the gate of the community, and I used to get a scattering of grandmas and grandpas coming to use my bathroom. And I didn’t mind, since I’m a community cafe after all. I need traffic. But now it’s getting out of control. Grandmas and grandpas are coming in big groups to go to the bathroom, even lining up for it. Can you believe this? While customers are sitting right there! Can you imagine what it looks like? They’re totally assuming my cafe is the local public bathroom.
What can I do? Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a good solution that doesn’t offend anyone, but still solves the problem? I’m a pretty shy person, so I don’t even know how to bring it up or ask them to leave. Can someone help me please?”
Comments say, “How much bucks is your face worth? What do you need face for when you’re running a business? Who are you actually responsible to, your customers or the gramps in your community? It’s a simple problem: just hang up a sign on your door that your bathroom is only for your customers. That’s it.”
“Seal off your bathroom door and hang up an “Out of Order” sign for a couple of days, then hang up a sign on your front door saying your bathroom is for customers only. When gramps come in, ask them right away what they want to drink. If they don’t answer and go straight for the bathroom, then tell them the bathroom is still broken and hasn’t been fixed yet. If they’re not buying anything, why do you care how they feel? Even if you’re being nice, you should save your kindness for people who deserve it.”
“Stop selling coffee and start running a grocery store, and run sales every once in a while, and stock lots of health supplements.”
“Saw someone on my feed, big influencer, who posts content where he looks at a woman’s social media platform to judge her “sluttiness”, and couldn’t stop laughing myself. Like, if men found out how much nice, traditional-looking, sweet, wifely women cheat, they’d probably be just as horrified as women finding out just how many men sleep with prostitutes.
Some people scream it to the world, some people put on a mask, and everyone is a lot more complicated than you think. Even professional people with training can’t solve criminal cases by just profiling suspects, you think you can figure someone out just through their social media? Stop dreaming.
In the real world, a social, outgoing, sluttily dressed woman might be a strong sense of honour. And a earnest, hardworking woman who never posts to social media might have a very colourful inner world.
If someone looks very honest, two possibilities exist—they’re actually honest, or they don’t have a chance yet. And if a chance came up, the kind of traditional, wifely woman who’s been repressing herself for the longest also gets the kinkiest. And they almost never get found out. You all know what it’s like. And if you don’t, then I hope you never do find out the truth.”
Comments say, “Yeah, no one’s just sitting around.”
“It’s just like how no influencer can actually predict whether or not you can become a civil servant.”
A compilation of the kind of food that female celebrities eat, with the blogger declaring, “This is why I could never be a celebrity.” I’m sure you’ve seen similar things for Hollywood, so I won’t post the entire long compilation. I’ll just pick out a couple of examples:
“If I eat like this for both lunch and dinner, would I get fat?”
“Lately, my mood be like:”
“Just had a very sad New Years. I hear that if you eat like this, you’ll be as thin as a strike of lightning for fashion week!”
Comments say, “Don’t get cause and effect backwards. It’s not that we can’t do this, so therefore we can’t become celebrities. It’s that celebrities are paid so much that it’s worth it for them to eat like this.”
“If I was paid 2.08 million a day, I could do it too.”
“How many celebrities even get their periods still??”
“Honestly, Chinese people have only really been living comfortable lives for a couple of decades. Every Dynasty’s had the draft and corvee, so everyone spends a month a year doing free labour for 12-14 hours a day, if you manage to survive the trek to your corvee site without getting robbed or mugged. Lots of people starved to death, or got overworked to death, or died of sickness. And corvee was only outlawed in 1990. It’s just that before that, we called corvee “voluntary labour”. Everyone had to pack their own food to go build roads or help some village harvest their wheat.
This is all unimaginable stuff for people who were born after the 90s. The most significant impact societal development brings people is ensuring that normal people can free themselves from back-breaking labour and live their lives with dignity.”
Comments say, “Back in the 80s and 90s, every village had to send people every year to do maintenance on the canals. That’s not a bad thing though.”
“We’re all slaves.”
“Just need to build robots.”
“I feel like everyone’s been ignoring something. We need to read western and Chinese news in tandem.
A lot of people feel like the economic is failing these last couple of years, and is only gonna get worse in the future. We’re going to become just like Japan and Korea, where the stronger the feminism movement is, the less rights women get. People are stuff in lose-lose scenarios. But what if our economic got better? What if western Europe has a huge calamity, and North America falls apart, and we get to take a huge bite out of both of them?
Right now, it looks like America’s pretty torn between the middle east and Ukraine and the conflict in the south sea, and is on the verge of being chased out of Eurasia. As soon as they can’t keep sucking the world’s blood through the US dollar anymore, their internal military industrial complex is going to fall apart—or else it’s going to abandon America’s corpse to find somewhere else to be a parasite.
If China’s diplomatic setup actually works out, with one belt one road, then we’ll have the resources of Africa, the right to exploit natural resources in the far East, free trade in East and South East Asia, and we’ll be getting an astronomical amount of money. By that time, employment, local government debt, social security, presold houses, and birth rates are all gonna stop being problems. Everyone’s income is going to rise, and women can have jobs and simps surrounding them, just like Japan during the heydays of the 80s. After we’ve stopped publicising court judgements, then no one will notice how women get lesser punishments for crimes under the booming economy, and we’ll have maintained our pride as a feminist country, and women’s rights will become our national will going forward.
And the injustice that some groups suffered will be forever buried in the long stream of history, never known by anyone. Now, it’s just how up how well China’s plans are going to play out. We’re on the cusp of the century here, and we’re playing on a very big chess board. The little bit of gender conflict we have right now, whether or not people are having kids, how much bride prices should be, that all doesn’t really matter.”
Comments say, “Now you’re talking politics. Honestly, no matter how badly America does, it’s not gonna get so bad that China can overcome them. That’s predetermined. At most, we can only be a superpower in Asia.”
“This is pretty standard neo-liberalism, believing that productivity will always overcome greed and desires. But in reality, the problems with distribution of resources has never went ago.”
“Yeah, this is why we gotta knock down the tower. Only then can we think about restoring the Chinese race.”
“It only took 2 minutes 35 seconds for my date to end. Does this guy have hormonal issues or something? Mouthing off to me. Is his oesophagus connected to his urinary track? Why does he sound so pissy all the time?”
OP attaches screenshots of texts with her boyfriend:
Boyfriend: “I need to go to a meeting right now.”
OP: “K.”
Boyfriend: “K?”
OP: “What?”
Boyfriend: “I don’t like it when people say K to me. Only I can say that to other people. Remember that next time.”
OP: “KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.”
Comments say, “Could you please stop saying K, K? K.”
“Honest question, what’s wrong with K?”
“Is this a date or a Museum of Weirdos? Weirdo Count +1.”"
“Just got shocked by rich kids. My coworker’s on a diet right now, and she’s from a super rich family. Every day, she brings a feast of food. It’s a real eye-opener. And when she’s done, she just throws all her ziplock bags away, and doesn’t even have to wash her hands. It’s so cool.
She says that her personal coach recommended this high-protein diet, with shrimp and veggies and fruit and carbs. She can fill up every day and still lose weight. She’s dropped from 57kg to just 53kg in a week. I’m so jealous! No wonder rich people are all thin!”
Comments say, “Aside from the shrimp and the grapes, it’s all pretty cheap stuff. This meal probably only cost 40 RMB to make.”
“I eat like this too and I only make 2K a month.”
“I’ve never seen rich people actually bring lunch to work. Why not just eat out at a fancy restaurant? The environment’s way better there.”
“If you commit to never buying a house, then it’s like you become rich over night!
I’ve got a friend in Shanghai who’d saved up 3 million RMB as down payment for a house. He was living stingy as fuck in order to afford a house.
Now that housing prices aren’t rising anymore, plus his field isn’t doing so hot either, he’s not wanting to buy a house anymore, so he saved up his money.
Once he stopped wanting to buy a house, he’s figured out that with 3 million in the bank, he’s getting 100K in interest every year.
Using this 100K interest, after paying his rent, he’s still got tens of thousands left over every year.
He just used 40K to go vacationing in a bunch of smaller towns around the country, eating the best food, living in the best hotels, and still have a bunch of money left over!”
Comments say, “Loan interest rates are like 1.5% now. With 3 million, you could get 45K in interest every month.”
“Where the hell is he renting in Shanghai to have tens of thousands left over every year? How many roommates does he have?”
“Did he save his money in Hong Kong or something? I’ve saved 2 million in a Chinese bank and only get about 50K in interest every year.”