I was fooling around with the shortwave last night and got China News International, a highly polished, government-sanctioned, western-style station broadcasting in English, and was interested to hear a story on how fishermen from small villages in one region are making extra money ($12 / month) by selling ordinary seawater to ritzy hotels and restaurants to keep their seafood fresh - apparently this was an issue before someone's bright idea.
But the kicker was the schoolmasterly on-air commentator's genial, upbeat summation of the story, which was (paraphrasing only slightly), "which just goes to show - in a market economy, it pays to be on the cusp of the trends!" I almost choked on my dinner when I heard that.
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/ dave /