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Back to Taiwan!!
12 years ago
Woot! After a whole months of backpack travel in China, I'm back to Taiwan at last!
Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and a couple more cities in 4 weeks, I was so tired lol.
but it really made me think of life.
There you can practically bribe in daylight, and sometimes bribing is required.
You don't always get hot water to take a shower, you have to boil them first and wash it fast before its used up.
(yet, you're lucky that you have equipment to boil water)
You don't get to just work hard and be the best to succeed, you need to use relations, backdoors and bribes just to get to a comfortable spot in job field.
(yet people live in poverty have absolutely no hope of getting out still manages to survive)
You can pay 80 Yuan (14USD) a day to hire someone, and they'd literally risk their lives for you.
(literally climbing up a wall without safety and seal a leak in the roof with torches)
Life isn't precious since there are simply way too many, a person's life can actually be accounted: worth approximately 200,000 yuan.
(a lot of coal miners died that way, and their family accepts that money almost with an attitude of "anticipated market price")
Therefore, the lower tier people are extremely resilient, and can die for their beliefs without questions.
Which is why all factories are in China, because only them can endure such harsh torture and still have a smile when they are paid so little.
I think we've lived in civilized world a bit too long that we forgot how evil, cruel, and strong we humans are.
People in US dies from all kinds of allergies, people in china survives through 20 hours of standing in trains, practically toxic food, ancient water, and leaders who don't, and can't, care about people lives, simply because there are too many.
I feel I need to be more grateful about my life.
Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and a couple more cities in 4 weeks, I was so tired lol.
but it really made me think of life.
There you can practically bribe in daylight, and sometimes bribing is required.
You don't always get hot water to take a shower, you have to boil them first and wash it fast before its used up.
(yet, you're lucky that you have equipment to boil water)
You don't get to just work hard and be the best to succeed, you need to use relations, backdoors and bribes just to get to a comfortable spot in job field.
(yet people live in poverty have absolutely no hope of getting out still manages to survive)
You can pay 80 Yuan (14USD) a day to hire someone, and they'd literally risk their lives for you.
(literally climbing up a wall without safety and seal a leak in the roof with torches)
Life isn't precious since there are simply way too many, a person's life can actually be accounted: worth approximately 200,000 yuan.
(a lot of coal miners died that way, and their family accepts that money almost with an attitude of "anticipated market price")
Therefore, the lower tier people are extremely resilient, and can die for their beliefs without questions.
Which is why all factories are in China, because only them can endure such harsh torture and still have a smile when they are paid so little.
I think we've lived in civilized world a bit too long that we forgot how evil, cruel, and strong we humans are.
People in US dies from all kinds of allergies, people in china survives through 20 hours of standing in trains, practically toxic food, ancient water, and leaders who don't, and can't, care about people lives, simply because there are too many.
I feel I need to be more grateful about my life.
ya, but taiwan is still better than US for me lol, aside from salaries