Oh yeah, no in America or Europe, if everyone used an app to do basic functions like buying food, it would be exploited to make everything worse, no shot that it would be regulated in a way that favors the people rather than the banks.
Wechat and Alipay do all that except the not keeping a record of transactions. There's tons of food places where the entire payment system is just a printed QR code and they just tell you how much to pay so there's nothing that can go down except the phone network and wifi.
You can also just give people money, which seems like it shouldn't work with a credit card because it's technically a cash advance. There's been a dozen times where a store that requires everything go through an app so they can make you click through 3 menus advertising discounts if you buy more items wouldn't work because I didn't have a Chinese number or something, and the employee would put in the order, then I'd give their personal account the money.
If thats Yuan yearly, yes, its crazy how cheap the housing is outside like city center of Beijing and Shanghai. If its Yen monthly, I mean you could rent a room in Nagoya for half that, or in Tokyo for most of it.
This cost me 1.80USD. Turns out if the government works to keep food prices low and gets rent down to 300-400/mo in the middle of major cities, 1 person running a small busibess can feed a lot of people cheaply.
I mean it literally is in 99% of cases. Mayo got a bad rap for having too many calories and being associated with poor people so now they call same thing aioli.
State-run media with a conservative bias (despite the conservatives being their greatest threat). They're fine for this type of reporting, but they immediately roll over whenever a conservative accuses them of reporting reality, and any reporting on a perceived enemy is hilariously distorted.
Yeah, and a lot of the 56% college grad rate is boomers who were educated before the fall and are now dying off. We will see it drop precipitously in the next 20 years or so, and the quality of the education of the newly graduated decline.
Oh yeah, no in America or Europe, if everyone used an app to do basic functions like buying food, it would be exploited to make everything worse, no shot that it would be regulated in a way that favors the people rather than the banks.