I have seen a woman flip through a wad of 100 yean bills without thinking twice and noticed the large eyes of one vendor as I pulled out just one to pay for my merchandise. I have strutted through emaculate white halls of ten-story malls and driven through sewage-filled streets. I have sat with successful Masters degree holders at dinner and watched a small woman at the cash register struggle over addition. I have shot up in a futuristic elevator to the tip-top of one of the world's tallest buildings and come down again to find the gruff migrant construction workers eating outside in the frigid rainy weather.
I do not see how dingy scrimping by and pure affluence can abide in such tight quarters. My sensitivity to this topic is so heightened after my other travels this year. Liberia is so obviously chaotic and disarrayed. The western world is orderly and cut to a clean line. China has a great heap of history, rules, population, and tradition to load a greatly improved and growing economy upon.
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