Keyu Jin

And even in Beijing, there were three or four blackouts per week, typically.

There was a sense of community.

There was a very strong bond between

people and within the family because they were going after a common goal, making your life better, right?

Struggling, striving to make your life better.

And I remember being on the back of my father's bike, getting up, you know, 6 a.m.

every day and going to nursery.

And, you know, that's the typical day.

Not a lot of material goods, but people had a sense of purpose.

And that's radically different.

It's completely different now in China.

Absolutely.

Well, everybody having a common goal and a sense of community, right?

That is what's missing in these extremely individual-based capitalist societies.

And I think what the Chinese government is striving to do with Chinese socialistic characteristics is to somehow try to preserve a bit of that socialist character while still relying on market-based incentives.

But if you're an extremely individual-based society, I think you do lose a lot of that.

And I think some of the backlash that we're seeing from society is a reflection of that, right?

People being alone more and more, the death of despair in the U.S., the addiction, you know, that they're lonely, right?

And competition means that you kind of have to be somewhat badass sometimes.

And you sometimes put down values and you forsake harmony in order to get ahead.