Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Oh No! China's Economic Plight Nakedly Unveiled by 180M-Fan Influencer! Now the Whole World Knows!" video.

But if you burnt your food and then mush it into some black coal ash. You could use that too. Like the good old days.
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@SuperCrazyEstonian : I actually agree on this point. China is a tea drinking nation, so they can't be the expert on coffee. Cos it isn't from their country and it mostly comes from either Africa or South America. North Americans know coffee cos they've drank it a lot and are close to the source. So... Similar thing with bubble tea. With their variation and things like that. So they kind of integrated some of the bubble tea concept with actually coffee. Wow wee.... lol.... I rather drink herbal tea imho. lol.... I miss this a lot. The other thing is also, they are also not used to actually drinking alcohol coffees either. Yet. lol....
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@xostler : I bet they don't even actually sell it at that price point. I bet not ! I bet that... the designer label ones are sold at a much higher price point as well.... Cos I don't believe the prices that they are selling it for tbh...
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@kyleaugustine6886 : Yeh but his cost of living is lower though. That is the ratio thing, on top of supply chain operations to get it there as well.. as well as overhead costings as well. The reality is that, that coffee should indeed be MORE expensive than it is already. The reason is that cos China, that is PRC does not have a commodities market for coffee and hence it seems like it is cheap. And they statically set the price at the point of its originally sold price point. But imagine if they did have this... then sure.. it can indeed go up as well.. like the rest of us had to pay for expensive coffee. They are kind of cheating their way out of things to be honest... That is why they want to increase that price point, but to be frank and fair.. should it be as such ??? And also, in the USA, you guys have a higher salary but how much taxes do you pay ? And you guys don't have a state medical care either like we do. We pool back our money to get this as well. Same with china. Well.. they do have free state healthcare as well.. which is the point. But whereas even though your salary is higher, you guys pay a lot more for your every day things...and what you earn, is what you need to pay. Even in Europe.. some states pay around 40-50% of their salary to the state for schools, medical care... pensions... etc etc. Even now, the UK's calculation is not enough for pensions. i.e. You need to have a state pension and a private pension and savings to see you through !!!! (This is why I hate these kind of chats about China, cos they aren't necessarily reporting explicit correct info. Everywhere you go, the range can vary from their province to their city or their states.. so it is meaningless...)
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@kyleaugustine6886 : ALSO... even though you may say that a person and a job is paying this much.. right now, there might not be any shortages. So... and those on the older contracts would be on lower pay and not on the higher pay ranges etc. It would of no use...
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@hailandfire1822 : It is very different though as well. Many doctors in the West, are not just a job. They actually own the business that they run as well. So it means that, their salaries has to carry the clinic as well? This is another one of those stupid media or social media thing, which can cause jealousies.. but without actual understanding of the obligations, the rights, and the regulations.. and the ins and the outs as well. So basically, I don't know about the USA, I presume that, the doctors also actually has to pay some kind of professional insurances as well. Cos the ones in the UK has to carry the weight of the building and has to run it as a side business, but with the medical side controlled and regulated by the state instead. Not the building and the salary, that too could be a possibility, but it is half privatised. Whereas it is clear that in China, their hospitals are carried by the provincial or city budgets. And they have to wrap it under some kind of SOE model as well. And then, either individual SOE or the collective, the entire thing has to be wrapped up as a listed company in their exchange...
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@franke9448 : There are surgeons from other countries that could enter the country for these kind of work as well.. but however.. they also actually have to actually bridge the gaps too. i.e. It depends on the country and how they operate, because in the UK, since people no longer learn the proper way, what has happened is in most cases, they now tied the university with the actual hospitals and rotate, in case there are cases of negligences !!! Which there HAD been... !!! Precisely BECAUSE... they had issues like this. This kind of different kind of education.
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@2amSpeedMerchant : Really ? Links please ?
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Bloody hell.... lol....(Why are they so personal? lol...) .. I thought that their average wage is around 300 yuans ? Or that is so for some people? So then what does this mean ? They spend one third of their monthly wage for THIS ?!?!! No way !!!! .... What they should do, is to turn some of these so called SOEs into actual private enterprises and then let them shrink as well and centralise their detail sectors. What stores cannot deliver, then they need to deliver via their home or domestic route.... Wow... retail is so harsh and tough in China. This is so crazy. No wonder people aren't really interested in their own actual brands. They should've bought the foreign brands and then merge, and use the brand as needed on a needs be basis. How come, they did not actually merged companies, or anything like that ? Or to sell some of their stores, to other larger stores, and then closed and reduce ? I suppose M&A is not a common thing in China ?? Cos that is how the USA survives. And it always happen, M&A is a part of business life...
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They pay the rent, and want to reduce the utilities and everything else? No way.... This is so crazy. No wonder... some of the chinese mainland people came to the UK... and they don't know how to run a business. Cos I didn't believe it when my colleague did not even check all of the actual best before dates as well..... So then in this lockdown, I did an entire check, and threw out the out of date items. And kept the rest. Something so simple like this, is not even looked after ? I was so shocked.
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If I was Pacific Coffee, I would actually reduce the number of stores, but then actually provide the backbones of the infrastructures and the coffee buying process within the china area. Cos you need an actual wholesale deliverable system in place and QA those. USA is so close to the South American coffee beans, they could leverage that aspect, to be the middle man for China ? Then if China uses their petrol of energy for other purses and allow USA to use their petrol for the supply chains into the China area direct from South America. Then this is win win. Also if Pacific Coffee actually focus on leveraging some of the British insurances or pension type of products within China as well. So each time you do see actually by buying an expensive coffee, you contribute a small section of some kind of medical healthcare checks or free checks. Whether for yourself or for your family etc. I don't see what is the point to always "compete directly"...
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They just loot different things....
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This is also partly why China is screwed. Cos they see it as a "blanket single price" ??? So if you buy at 6 or 7 USD ... Then that is already included the shipping prices from say South America into the USA. And that already included the costings etc. And some companies in the USA would also use their stock exchanges for the purpose that it is built for. i.e. To swap as a ratio. It is arbitrary to say... if you compre 50 yuans with 7 dollars. However.. if you don't swap it back in an exchange to reduce the fluctuations, then it is also meaningless ?? So how much is food then in China ? Don't tell me that their agricultural food is actually free..... Please don't say that is so. Some people said that it is like 1 tonne = 200 yuans or something ridiculous like that.
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@raacore : Yeh... I didn't even know that either... I doubt it very much cos I checked and that isn't the price in HK. So he is kind of lying. Unless the price of gold is different in different regions. But I bet that it is also restricted anyway. If that is the case, then I could go on holiday to Shanghai to get gold and it would have been a LOT better than to see the stock market rise or whatever !!!! Plus.. the PRC restricts these adverts anyway... So... it isn't likely that they would get tourists. Seriously.
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@paulbedichek5177 : Not unless it's private gold... lol... There's a lot you don't really know what is going on in the PRC... And I am sure that they have that as well. Kind of like Japan. Internal consumption stocks versus external consumption stocks. So...
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@peterphan227 : With Starbuck's coffee. Maybe because their processing method is more or less standardised. And such that, they have the best equipment to ensure that the standard is there. So therefore it is a lot nicer.. which is not the same if you went and bought wild beans. Some of their beans have been qualified. i.e. Scanned and checked. With most large suppliers... they are a lot more sophisticated these days. So... With Starbucks, to be fair, you pay for the currency exchange rates. Whereas, sure.. you may or may not find nicer coffee from other branches, but to be fair.. It is not common. It is like, yes, globally, there are around 50 "factories" of the same brand. But I can assure you that, they are not all of the same quality. And this is the downfall. Even why some "fake goods" exists inside China as well. Some are basically diluted of the original thing. Then why didn't they just sell it in a smaller size instead? Rather than to dilute it. Make smaller bottles for sales instead !!! This is one of the hateful thing that I dislike that comes out of China. Whereas in the UK.. we just sell a smaller quantity instead. Or loosely sell it instead. But never dilute.
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The guy is an overeducated idiot.. lol.... What HK did was to "give it away for free" and then pay the loans or rent later. lol.... That shifted the market. And then everybody is locked down. Now everybody playsmah jong... It can only shrink and then expands again.... And some people saves, and then gives it back out as donation later on etc. That is what is going on. So all of these "grand idea projects"... I don't think it is working at all ???.... Even though on a macro level. Sure... they built a lot of things, but they also wasted a lot of resources as well though. I didn't even know that they had so much empty buildings. I don't think the point was to build the building... as you could see.. the building was a way to transfer money.... I finally clicked now. This is why some store holders could decide to close and to shut down asap. (Before HK opened up.. it only had around a mere 3000 high rises... which was workable, enough and reasonable. It now has around a stupid 9000 !!!! This is now too crazy. Unworkable. And unsustinable.) If tourism was controlled as well.. Then they could actually just spread the wealth or the money around direct from A to B etc.... China worked so well at one point and then it didn't...
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@WarsunGames : It is not smart. It is luck. And it is knowing how to play politics...
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I am beginning to think why did they diluted it ? Was it because they do not have the stocks and wanted to stretch it, in order to make the sales. I bet this was why, wasn't it ? So.. then they can reshrink it back then. If that is the case. Funny how they don't actually do some food testings and such likes though... Which they should have done.
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@JeweLinHisHans : This is way too tough. How is this possible ??? Not possible at all ? And those who "earned" are merely nothing but on the back of somebody else's sacrifices... somebody else's money.. and somebody else's families... !!!
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@HKim0072 : You need to understand that in the West, this kind of investing and info were hidden away from the previous generation.. you know.. and it isn't taught to so many individuals as well.. and this is whereby benefits or a social system has to be put into place. And this is on top of the existing situation that you have to hold down a job in your lifetime and that itself can be a complex job as well too ? And most STEM people are being educated now in this century... so how could you afford to calculate your spendings,... as well as hold down STEMs... as well as to look after your next generation ? This is almost impossible ??? In the UK, this is even much harsher as well... you're juggling everything ! Sure... internet is good to some extent, and everybody writes down everything, so you learn something in 5 seconds, which took somebody like around a good 20 years before... SURE.. we are indeed the most knowledgeable generation and century of our times.. but still... the flow of capitalism and cash... This is just insane. Very insane.
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