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Jenn's avatar

Thank you for the pictures of the T-shirts. I just had to know

Patrick Kho's avatar

I needed to make it clear for any potential fact checkers

mark ye's avatar

Who says deflation is all bad?

Patrick Kho's avatar

It’s lowkey kinda based sometimes

Joe Hovde's avatar

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. The notion of a generation seeing all of that happen in their lifetime is wild, I feel like they should be studied for what we’re gonna go through with AI

Patrick Kho's avatar

The quadruple whammy of seeing your society turn from agricultural to manufacturing to service to AI dystopia in a single lifetime… it should be brain frying idk how they do it

yung industry.'s avatar

I really enjoyed reading this

Liam Richardson's avatar

Loved this and learned a lot!

Patrick Kho's avatar

Thanks Liam!

Yanyu 煙雨's avatar

The exchange rate line at the end is the most important point, the whole arbitrage only works while it works. ZIRP abundance was fake money catching up with itself. Chinese manufacturing abundance feels more real because there’s actual productive capacity behind it, but the debt footnote you drop at the end suggests the mechanism might not be as different as it feels on a Saturday night in Shenzhen.

Patrick Kho's avatar

The exchange rate better not worsen for me bc I really wanna go to China more this year