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Warning to anyone visiting China from the west #shanghai #china

@iampaullee
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This is a warning to any Westerner visiting China. The first thing that's going to happen is you're going to question your reality of living in the States or living in the West. As in what the hell are we kidding in the West? As an American born and raised my whole entire life, I could not imagine living in a city that looks as beautiful as this. This is Shanghai. And here in Shanghai, I could leave my bags right here unattended. Probably for the whole day, it would still be there or the police would probably pick it up for me, right? You could not do that probably anywhere in America. And we're paying 40% 50% of taxes in America. This cities don't look like this. The streets aren't clean like this. Where is our money going to? So this is a warning to anybody visiting China. You're just going to question what the hell are you getting? What is the actual value that you're getting, right? Here in China, I feel like all the money goes back into the infrastructure and goes back into the city and the well-being and education and all that. Or as in America, it just feels like a giant corporatocracy where the money is just going into a few select amount of people. And I'm not saying China is perfect. But you can feel that they have invested so much into the infrastructure, so much into the people, so much into the education, into technology, to any Americans. Question, what the value is? You're getting an America. And question, can you get that value elsewhere?