China’s artificial class divides has additional benefits: frequently I hear a call from my window, men and women, riding around on tricycles collecting various types of trash. These are then sorted into cardboard, styrofoam, bottles, and hundreds of other categories, in hole-in-the-wall hutong spaces. It is dirty work, but clearly there is a demand. You haven’t lived in Beijing until you see a cart loaded 12 meters high, on only a 1.5 meter-long base, all of which is styrofoam and plastic bottles.

Yet another way in which China is more capitalistic than the USA.