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Self sacrifice and patience pays off... or so they say.
Virtues in life taken a bit too far. Korea used to be like that as well, especially in poor regions or very conservative regions with more older generations than the young.
Yeah western flaggant capitalism is excessive. But in Asia we got something just as bad, Over emphesized virtues.
Problems get corrected when they invite foreign exposure like this. Korea had a very similar history when the hosted the 1988 Olympics. President Jeon Doo Hwan's coup government was no longer able to run tanks into college campuses since there were foreign media members everywhere in the country.
And he ended up signing many bills recognizing the rights of the people, and country ended up becoming way more democratic before the coup.
Hopefully all this media attention in China will pressure them to fix a lot of things. Lot of Chinese immigrants I talk to say that in China you can live extravagantly if you play the game of corruption and all. But then even after acumilating all that corrupt wealth, it's still not your own, and you cannot use it to whatever you please.
So even if you own a property or an object, you are never free to do what you want.