"omg this hit like a truck. i used to think ‘free market’ meant less government, but in china it actually looks like *more chaos*, which is weirdly freeing? like… the system doesn’t need to approve you before you do shit. i was in shenzhen once and saw some guy soldering circuit boards on a folding table next to a noodle cart. that’s not a business — that’s *life* with GDP leaking out of it.

and you’re so