Whoa! Busy busy

R3dragon Uncategorized March 15, 2007

Man it’s been a long time (a day) since I posted better get busy…

Well it’s bright and sunny for us but for this guy…

Things could be better… Now look at this photo… Why is it that when we catch the bad guy, we take the worst photo of him? Propaganda? I mean look at our history.. Saddam, Malawi, and others… All lame photos. Now this guy and the entire federal bureau claims that this guy is the ‘master mind’ behind all the attacks…. right. Don’t ask me, but he looks more like a New York taxi driver.
Now for some better news… Chinese news. On the long commute home yesterday I heard a NPR report that I couldn’t believe. It was genius, it was great, it was communistic capitalism.
Chinese consumers are using the Internet to organize themselves into powerful bargaining groups that use their large numbers to negotiate discounts on products of all kinds.
For suppliers, the lure of group-buying is they can turn a profit, even while selling at 20 to 30 percent below retail prices. For shoppers wary of fakes and shoddy goods, group-shopping offers the comfort of buying en masse.

The report interviews shoppers and suppliers, but the whole thing is organized via the Internet. Online shoppers register in with a bigger group and dates, times, & locations are posted for consumers to show up and pick what they want. A majority of them are newly minted ‘middle class earners‘ who redecorating their new condos.

The most ironic part of this is that the group leader says that group shopping is in line with the very ideals of Chairman Mao’s communist agenda. Power resides in numbers and just like working and living as a group, group shopping just takes it to the next level.

Now what would Chairman Mao think if he knew that now his communal principals were being used in the capitalistic ways?

~J out


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