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I was really involved with mail order during the late 90s and on into the 2000s, and that experienced helped a lot with wholesale orders. Chinese new year was a huge thing for awards and trinkets even during the mid 2000s and early 2010s, and I got to see that crazy network forming in real time. Back and forth the goods go, sometimes traveling ten times further than the distance from origin to destination, but it's like Voyager hitching a ride on Jupiter: it just has to hitch the ride when it's available, and that extra hundred million miles or so doesn't really matter to Voyager as compared to the enormous slingshot.

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Yeah it's amazingly optimized - the fact that someone is still making a buck in all this is nuts. The thing that really got me is projection that by 2030 China will make *half* of all the stuff the world needs (wants?)

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It's the factory for the whole world, truly. We've never seen anything quite so comprehensive before.

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Loved this. I had a parody site - since closed - https://archive.ph/B6fKS

You may like it! It was hosted on a domain called shittytrinkets.ca

✌️🎅 !

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Sometimes shitty trinkets break, dude 🤣

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That's some kinda economic inertia you've illustrated. And I thought turning around an aircraft carrier was difficult. Well, we've still got the Olympics ... for now! https://open.substack.com/pub/frankmarianidesign/p/precious-medals

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The 2008 opening ceremonies in Beijing was my first CHINA oh shit! Moment https://youtu.be/TA0ZVxHRxCM

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WOW is insufficient!

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I can only help with western Europe I'm afraid.....

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Eastern Europe or India might go back over the Pacific so I think I need to send two to you in the UK Keith, and then you send one to your bestie in Shenzen.

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