Lots of bullshit details here.
China expert was in China for a whole 18 months as an anglo expat english teacher. expat english teachers are famously known to learn much about the cultures in which they live. in no way do most of them make mostly expat friends, go to expat bars and eat at western slop restaurants
First thing they noticed about China: the macdongles is different! Surely this offers some insight into the asian mind.
The difference: I’m sure we’ve all seen the old redditesque urban legend where someone’s dad prides himself of not cleaning up after eating, because being a messy dickhead “creates jobs”. apparently, the chinese are a whole nation of redditor dads, which is now a socialist virtue. because there’s nothing more socialist than creating work by wasting people’s time, especially in a country that could maybe hire people to reforest the desert or work in a solar cell factory.
personally, I don’t eat at mcdangols, whether in china or elsewhere, but I use their toilets frequently so i’ve been inside their corporate-imperialist embassies many times. chinese maccy-eaters are in no way more messy than westerners.
This is kind of a restating of the apocryphal Friedman quote about how a work gang in China should use spoons instead of shovels if it’s a jobs program. This seems to be the extent of western understanding of how Communism is supposed to work.
China isn’t playing by capitalist rules
That’s correct Jerry! And you wanna’ know why? 
Imagine being in a place with ten thousand years of culinary traditions through dozens of cultures and still going to the McDonald’s.
China has a very active restaurant culture. You usually eat out, for breakfast at least.
best food country in the world and they went to mcburg
macdong’s in china has youtiao and soymilk though, so it’s already better than western mac’s. still, you’ll get much better youtiao and soymilk and any morning market/breakfast joint
if they only went to mcdonald’s, or if they were only there a few days, sure. but if you’re somewhere for months and months you can probably sacrifice one meal to check out the local interpretation of something familiar.
China isn’t playing by capitalist rules
What rules? Where is this rulebook that dictates the proper procedures for fast food restaurant cleanup under True Capitalism? Fucking libs always mistaking capitalism for some morality play.
Maybe it is better to spread the wealth rather than just concentrate it at the complete top. It’s not as if those people are contributing more to the production than those who are bussing the tables.
if you shit on the floor someone will have to clean it up. good for the economy to shit on the floor. this increases gdp
Socialism is when you have a bus boy and the more bus boys you have the more socialist it is.
So this guy thinks that if you leave your tray on the table, no one’s ever going to pick it up, ever? The smartest people in the world.
the expectation here is that you bus yourself, we’re not going to leave your trash on a table forever but we might spit in your burger next time.
That’s how it is here too. Just put your thing in the rolly wagon as you leave.
McDonalds in China is genuinely identical to McDonalds anywhere else in the world. Some people put their own trays away, some don’t, someone is always going to be employed to deal with the latter.
However, I do think there’s an interesting discussion to have on China’s employment tactics, for example how huge numbers of especially older people fill low-wage jobs like street cleaning or security guarding, on a probably unnecessary scale, to ensure full-employment.
oh being a 保安叔叔 is like a dream job, sitting in a little booth all day drinking tea, taking naps and getting to wear a cool cap.
ladies working as ayis have it worse though, that’s a tough job for low pay. i’ve seen some ladies working as baoan though, it’s not only uncles
Yeah, the baoan pay is dirt but they usually seem pretty content with their work. They’re the best people to share a cigarette and practice some Chinese with.
i’ve seen some ladies working as baoan though, it’s not only uncles
Weirdly younger women seem to work a lot of the metro security (theater) jobs, not true baoans but they fill the same role.
It’s wild how someone could possibly misinterpret McDonalds playing at being a real restaurant with waitstaff in some countries where it can pretend to be a fancy foreign luxury brand instead of the absolute worst, bottom of the barrel fast food you can possibly find that it is in the US, as instead being a make-work program like some US states do with gas stations needing to have dedicated gas pumpers on the payroll.
what’s some of the stories you’ve heard? one i heard was there were no birds, because people were hunting them for food
I didn’t clear the table at applebee’s and that why the west will fʌll
Thank u 4 creating jobs
Here in America we do things much differently: You eat in your car and then “bus your tray” by throwing the bag of trash into the ditch on the side of the interstate. This is so that the enslaved people have something to do for their multiple consecutive life sentences.
