willmoyer

ksabrs45:

China has a less regulated express delivery sector than the US. I pay 15 yuan to send a package to Beijing ($2.30) and it seems to cap out at 20 yuan for locations as far as ShenZhen - and I get a reliable tracking number! For Beijing, it arrives two days later - they even operate on Saturday and Sunday - Yes. You can send and receive a package on Sunday afternoon. Judeo-Christian cultural vestige fail…

American’s don’t realize it yet but they’re next in line for the great tradition of scrambling at the last minute to find a new country to immigrate to. Ideas of American exceptionalism give most people comfort from this harsh precedent and so they consider the future of the nation and indeed themselves to be exempt from the lessons of history – but I suspect that many are going to find out the hard way that there is nothing inherently exceptional about the US. I suspect that within the next decades Americans will be desperate to emigrate to countries like China and Korea.