Atrioc

My week in China synopsis of it is like... I'll tell you, no weed in China.

That's where Aiden was getting.

You've been eating betel nut.

Yeah.

What's an extra 300 million people?

That way everybody can keep the character of Los Angeles.

I think what in the country, the government wields the power to make sure that corporate interests can't overwhelm anything.

Which it's like, if anything falls out of line in terms of competition, they have the power to be like, this...

There's a bunch of billionaires in China.

China has plenty of billionaires.

The second most billionaires in the world.

There's a gigantic wealth gap in China.

But anybody who falls out of line or isn't acting in the country's best interest, they can kind of come in and hammer that thing down and change it.

And I feel like in the U.S., it's not the same.

In the U.S.,

Corporate money is so tied into politics that the government's ability to effectively influence business in a direction for the country's best interests is not there in the same way.

And I'm not saying that doesn't come with trade-offs here or something.

But I think that is the difference is like when you see billionaires in China held accountable by the government in a way that I don't think is really possible in the US.

I think that's part of the reason that like the competition exists in China in the way that it does.

I think this whole dynamic was really interesting.