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Who the hell want to give this paxhole a ride?
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Additional $30 will get him there.
Additional $30 will get him there.
Upfront tip option is desperately needed.
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I've heard, in china, if your social ratings fall below certain level, you cannot take public transportations, airplanes n taxis.
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There used to be this option, it was called the multiplier.
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Did some research on this, it's partially true, if you got on the black list, you won't be able to buy plane tickets or high speed train tickets, but you can still travel on slower public transportation such as trains and buses.
But judging from the list of things that you might lose the score on, you have to be a pretty big dbag to get on the list, something we can really use here for those Wall Street pricks and crypto scammers.
Also don't forget we all live in a society dominated by credit score, which decides whether you can get a loan, rent a place, buy a car or get a job or become homeless, seems much more cruel than what China has right now.
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True, but we are in a much better place than China.
I pay attention to world news.
185 people willing to take paxholes for $.32 a mile or less. lol. Pig Pen is packed no parking. Everyone seems to think that people will be flying into Los Angeles today. Lol armatures.
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We all have our strategies. Except for these 185 numskulls.
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That's assuming "world news" does not lie. People automatically believe everything bad happening in China "because it's China", that's already very dangerous. For example, do you instantly believe all the accusations MSM reported against the party / the candidates you support? No, you will think twice or call it fake news. But when it comes to China, everything negative must be true, regardless how ridiculous or against common sense it is, from concentration camps to slave labor solar panels or cotton in XJ.
My uncle runs a lab for nearly two decades and they use a lot of exchange PHD scholars from China, fewer and fewer seeks to stay after their exchange period, that says a lot about how much US is "a much better place". I'd say you make more money in the US, cars and gadgets are cheaper, houses are bigger, but China definitely has better food, infrastructure, transportation and security. You don't get your car window smashed, wheels stolen, shot, robbed, kidnapped in most decent countries other than the US, seeing a specialist is also much easier in China, even with a good HMO it still takes a ****ing month or two to see a specialist.
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My strategy: never go to LAX.
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Better food? I disagree. I would agree if said unhealthy food.
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US is far from a perfect place but better than communist China.
A big mouth like myself will not survive there.
In this forum, I think I have been banned more than anyone else.
As for healthcare in this country, it's a f-ing joke.
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I used to travel a lot. If you are middle class or above, then life in the majority of countries is just as good as in the USA. Everywhere has it pros and cons. It does suck to be poor in some countries more than the US, but there are also countries where being poor is less miserable than the US.
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You really think they throw you in jail if you say something bad about CCP?
People do worse shit (making up fake earth quake, virus outbreak, other crisis etc to create public panic) in Wechat (Chinese Facebook), Weibo (Chinese Twitter), Zhihu (Chinese equivalent of Quora), Wangyi and Xiaohongshu, the worst they get is like 3 days if it actually incites public panic / creates chaos. Despite 4x the population, there are actually less people incarcerated in China than the US.
Also China is no where near communism, it's more like a hybrid of socialism and capitalisms. Its market mostly works like capitalism with workers getting exploited even more than the US (most companies are glorifying this bs 996 hustling culture), while many of the crucial industries (energy, banking, transportation etc) are government owned so they can actually collect tax to improve infrastructure.
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The US has one of the largest jail/prison populations in the world. You’re usually going to be fine speaking your mind in China and Asia in general unless you are a threat to powerful people. However, you can still get ****ed over if you’re a threat to those in power in the US.
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I’m just starting to get comfortable with almost never chilling at the airport with the Lux only grind. I can understand why people in higher tiers do it though, since getting trips involves waiting and the airport can become a comfortable/familiar place to wait.
It’s never made sense to chill at the airport for Uber X drivers though when you can leave and get a ping within a minute or 2 max the majority of the day.
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Beat yo ass to near death 3 days in jail you mean.
We probably have the largest population in jail than any other.
The average IQ here is that of a monkey.
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In many of the more socialist/Scandinavian countries, losing your job or something is less terrible because they have stronger social safety nets and welfare systems than we do.
In some of the poorer countries that don’t have safety nets, being poor can be less miserable simply because it doesn’t take a lot of money to survive. Your family may own the house or you have very low rent and the general cost of living is low. You’re not going to have a ton of first world amenities, but if you just want to live a simple life, it’s not miserable.
The truly miserable places are where you are dealing with starvation, homelessness or excess violence.
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