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The cars and the scooters are absolutely problematic.

Yeah, the delivery driver stuff... Okay, we were talking about this kind of consistent flow and class of delivery drivers that kind of underpins everything in the city.

As you walk into a building, it doesn't matter what type of building it is, there's always delivery drivers walking in, out of it, parking, going.

There's...

They exist in all facets of life.

They're so present in a way that they aren't in the U.S., probably because everybody's in cars, and I think it is more popular here, 100%, partly because of how cheap it is.

So you ordered three meals one of the nights that we were in Shanghai for 12 U.S.

dollars?

You are a sitcom character.

You are a sitcom character.

You buy your basketball.

You dribble it in the middle of the train station.

You lose your passport.

You're reading a book that I think is the 2x the size of the Bible that literally says capitalism in giant letters on the front of it and brought it to China, whether it be intentional or not.

Yeah, I don't feel like it's necessarily changed my opinion or understanding.

I think going into this, from everything we've read and talked about China before, it's like the state is very heavy-handed in picking the winners and losers of overall industries.

We're going to allocate...

assets to benefit public infrastructure or to benefit specific types of companies so that things flow in a certain direction but if you're a part it's like the the free the the free market or the capitalism part of it is it within the industries that they want to see like proliferate and succeed and i i feel like that's what i'm witnessing yeah i said they're not picking winners and losers

I think they're not picking winners and losers within the industries.

They're doing everything they can to emphasize start successful companies within these spaces and industries and then compete with each other.