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On a tangentially related subject, I ran into an old chum over the weekend who has spent the last four years living in a major city in China, and he's coming ba
by EliRivers 11y ago
On a tangentially related subject, I ran into an old chum over the weekend who has spent the last four years living in a major city in China, and he's coming back because he says he just can't trust anything. He can't breath the air, he can't trust the water (even sealed bottled water, having seen enough sealed bottled water that was actually taken straight from the factory tap), recently some people were executed for selling plastic rice (which did exactly what you would expect to the people eating it). Regulation is so necessary. To be fair, he did make it clear that the penalty for fucking with the food supply is death.
- pjc50 11y agoIndeed. Public trust is an important shared resouce, and like any other shared resouce vulnerable to people who want to asset-strip it for a profit. People forget that in the West the level of general trust we enjoy is high, took a long time to build, and requires continuous engagement to maintain. That's why incidents like Flint, MI need to be addressed with a national response, or in a few decades people will be struggling to work out where to get safe water in the US.