I think it would be disastrous in America or Korea, but it seems to work here and it would probably work in Japan.

Theres 2 paths they can take as incomes go up and electric vehicle prices go down: effective mass transit or India.

Yeah those are all pretty valid. Going cashless requires a lot more from society than just giving everyone an app.

Or like the one bar I go to is still kinda lawless haha, a PBR is $2.

lmao you should see how cheap liquor is in asia.

Quite a few companies in China have been outsourcing to Vietnam to avoid tariffs during the first Trump administration. They didn't reverse course after the Biden administration increased tariffs further.

Even if Trump didn't touch the 25% special tariff on Chinese goods, 20% alone justifies doing so.

A lot of places in east asia have red light timers. If theres nobody coming, people will start when theres like 3 seconds left.

I saw someone do that in Korea. The guy in front immediately stops the car and sits there for like 2 minutes as the guy behind honks and eventually does like a 7 point turn to go around.

Regarding 2 and 3, theres a qualitative difference between the chinese government mandating corporations respect privacy and not retain or use biometric data and the US doing so (with the EU somewhere in the middle, usually), and what they have historically used that data for.

Regarding 1, in the event of a total societal collapse where not even phone towers are running, I'm not sure how much utility money would have.

I mean it has a subway in the same way Atlanta has a subway. There's 2 lines that probably can't get you where you're going, and it's always faster to take a motorcycle.

It's not.

Crazy that this technology still exists. Half my credit cards don't even have raised numbers.

Throw in dedicated bus lanes with priority at lights and then you're cooking.

We retreated after taking massive losses and accomplishing none of our strategic objectives, unless you consider sending a generation of youth, poisoning the land for generations, and committing countless atrocities to be the real objectives, rather than the stated goal of preventing Vietnam, a country that is still communist to this day, from becoming communist?