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they have managed to do the impossible.

In a country that's this big with this many people, they can get people to make, like, cohesively get behind goals or ideas.

And that's,

At home, in a country that is still large in population, a lot of those things seem so daunting because of how many people are in the U.S.

with so many different opinions.

They're so polarized.

And then this place has literally four times as many people.

And they're able to do it somehow.

Shanghai was like Tokyo clean.

It was crazy.

One thing that really, really stuck with me on the scale stuff is our friend on the train when he said, you guys have such a big country with so few people.

I thought that was insane.

Because from his perspective, it's totally true, right?

The U.S.

has the third largest population in the world.

I don't know where it stands on population density, but 330 million people is a lot of people for a country.

That's a lot of people.

But when you think about the scale here of like 1.4 billion, it's in a totally different realm.

And I was really, really trying to reiterate to my girlfriend who I've been texting, like, dude, the train stations that we, not only the train station in Shanghai that we left from,

but the train stations that we stopped at along the way and like saw from the platform.