It's not too far fetched that Shanghai will experience a golden age in the coming years. Also several sources state that there is actually a strong retro trend going on. Now imagining an incident like the current Subprime crisis, leaving China relatively without damage (not entirely true but imagina...

Also: Sheldon Pacotti has been consulted about the story (not sure how much he helped with it though). Time to get excited again, eh?
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One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that I deliberately left "politician" out of my rant against Smike's statement: Times like these remind me of the mid 90s, when everyone was a movie critic. Now everyone's an armchair politician and economist, while no one actually knows a damned thing abo...

I guess you were refering to "Deutsche Gründlichkeit" (=German efficency). I bet that has it's roots in the Third Reich.

Fascinating. I actually wonder how that became a stereotype about Germans. Is it because of the once famous high production standards ("Made in Germany")?

Fox: Nah, wasn't making an analogy either, just observing a cultural trend. Economics and politics are points of discussion for the youth culture of today, and that reminds me of how often we talked about movies in the 90s. Yesterday we were talking about fruit, now it's turnips. Wow, funny that. G...

food, sex, gas... Food won't stay good for long, so it's not suitable as a currency Sex would be ok, although I'm having a hard time deciding what the price for a cup of coffee would be. And what about the vending machines? :shock: Gas would be ok, although you'd have to sell it for it to be useful...

Drug dealing might be an option, but still in the end, you'd be left with piles of dollars which would be worthless. Why? Obviously people would have to pay in kind - food, sex, gas, manpower... Maybe part of the "customers" can be converted into slaves, which opens up a whole new economic branch f...

When life seems jolly rotten - people want to escape -> strong demand for cheap and heavy drugs -> you need to become serious with drug dealing/production

*annoyed*

Ok, it was an analogy than... and it didn't work because of the same reasons. But nevermind, I agree that people talk too much about things they don't know so I shall act as a model and shut up. This thread is crap.

No, everyone is a critic in a way. Some are better informed and educated than others, which makes some people better critics than others, yes but in opposition to reviews criticism is not always meant to be broadcasted. Everybody reflects on the observation of, say, a movie, wether it be to himself ...

Times like these remind me of the mid 90s, when everyone was a movie critic. Now everyone's an armchair politician and economist, while no one actually knows a damned thing about any of the subjects. Everybody is a movie critic but the comparison between economy and movies is flawed anyway. Economi...

Exactly