r/SipsTea • u/SunnSaiyaan • 1d ago

Chugging tea Chinese bride gifts her partner a flagship GPU at wedding he breaks down in tears

That's an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 that costs around $12,000

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u/GD_SexualTyranno 1d ago

Their cousins living better lives than most of us in America dawg

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u/NuXboxwhodis 1d ago

China is far from perfect but as an American when I look at cities like Chongqing it really highlights how far behind we are.

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u/WaltChamberlin 1d ago

Just a question do you think living in that massive megaopolis is actually better than living in the US because that is utter brain rot

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u/GD_SexualTyranno 1d ago

Question, from where you are right now, can you get to a high speed train within 100 miles that will take you ~500 miles for about $20?

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u/WaltChamberlin 1d ago

Thats.... not what I value for quality of life? High speed trains is not synonymous with a better life. It is a component of it, if you value it, but.. that doesnt mean the average Chinese person is living better than the average American lol

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u/GD_SexualTyranno 1d ago

You understand that they literally pay a fraction of everything we buy every day, from food to clothes to rent to car payments, right?

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u/WaltChamberlin 1d ago

Do you understand that their pay is also a fraction of what we get for the same job?

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u/KoolDiscoDan 1d ago

You realize they have some of the highest death rates from long working hours. While illegal, many factories still require the workers to work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.

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u/KoolDiscoDan 1d ago

Don't get it twisted. I'm not saying China is a horrible place. I'd love to go to Shenzen, Beijing, Chongqing.

But there's a reason all the tech is created there. You're not familiar with 996 working hours?
Their cousins working in a factory with nets to stop suicides ain't one of them dawg.

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u/WaltChamberlin 1d ago

Yeah my friend, life in China is not better than the U.S. for the average person

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u/MikeyFromWork 1d ago

Have you been to China? I haven’t so i can’t speak on this.

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u/jmlinden7 19h ago

I think the circlejerk has gone too far, while some upper middle class Chinese have an arguably higher quality of life than the average American, a random factory worker is going to be miles below the average American