"How is one to make a meaningful comparison of wages in Japan and the United States or of real-estate costs in New York and Tokyo, without taking sophisticated account of the very complex fiscal and investment flows that link the two economies through a global grid of currency speculation and capital transfer?"
I decided to choose this quote from Appadurai's chapter because it is important to note how different each national economy is from one another. The difference between technoscapes, ethnoscapes, and financescapes makes each individual economy completely different and a marvel in its own right. Additionally, each country has intricate systems put in place long ago that are meant to keep the rich rich and the poor poor. For example, in the United State, our credit score system is very effective at this along with the ways in which our tax codes for the rich are written. Another example of a finance system that keeps the poor down is China's new implementation of a social credit system. With facial recognition cameras everywhere you could possibly think to put them, in China if you get caught on camera J walking your social credit will be fined. This is the case for every other mild misdemeanor and or finable offense. This system only negatively affects the lower classes since they are the only ones that are out there on the street walking around. You can't be fined for j walking or traffic offenses if you have a driver and a super nice car. Additionally, the way media is presented in each country is completely different, especially in super-controlling borderline tyrannical countries like China. For example, in China TikTok encourages academic success and professionalism theme videos. While in the United States we use it as a distraction and or therapeutical fashion. All information in China is monitored at a much higher and more efficient rate than it is in the United States. Even though here in the United States our government monitors most of our electronic media, that isn't coming from an established news source. The ways in which countries operate and the ways in which they deal with technological advancement completely depends on what the country has been through in the past.
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