Ive always thought it was due tax related reasons. In México, most shops have it set up so the price + IVA (our consumer tax) gives you a rounded number.

And if you die you lose everything you paid for and your family gets none. Sounds great!

In México they’re called PPR (PLAN PERSONAL DE RETIRO, i.e. Personal retirement plan), they’re offered by private finance companies often the same ones that sell insurance. In a nutshell, you only get a fraction of what you invested and only if you complete the entirety of the retirement plan, if for whatever reason you are unable to continue paying it you can lose the entirety of your “savings” and your family can’t even retrieve it if something were to happen.

You’re straight up better off by going to a bank and setting up an automatic fund even with their lowest interest rate fund or better yet automatic bond investing, in either case you do even less work than having a private retirement plan. This has all the added benefit of being able to use your savings in case of an emergency and even inheriting to your family.

Same for healthcare, just set up an investment account and have it automatically deduct X amount from your salary, or whatever you would pay for a private insurance, and same as before you will always have the option to inherit to your family in case something happened to you.

And even on the off chance they actually pay for whatever you need, you need to go through an ungodly amount of bureaucracy and most certainly pay a deductible as if you are not already paying enough for the insurance!

who are not scamming people

yet. The need for infinite growth will always lead to insurance companies to engage in the DDD playbook and worse when they capture the finite market of users.

Any type of insurance or retirement plan really. I feel like the crazy one when i mention people how these things are scam are you are better off, much much better off, making yourself one.

I’ve not seen one mention of Tlatelolco massacre which was propped up by the CIA through the mexican goverment.

why stop there? maybe they were hundreds of thousands, even millions!

At this point the US has murdered more caribbean fishermen in this last year than the people that died in Tiananmen square and certainly much more civilians in Iran, including more than a hundred kids in a single strike. They also murdered thousands of yemeni, including targeted strikes on weddings.

But i guess China just as bad as the US 🤷

The nerve of saying can personally confirm a complete bullshit lmao.

but but have you considered the abstract values???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5j2GcWZEbM

here have an uyghur talking to a propagandized westerner that thinks they know more about their own people.

He means the UwU occupied american subjects, Japan SK philippines, who make these statements from time to time to appease their overlord.

You say this as if the US didn’t have problems with it’s neighbours and as if that stopped them from invading and bombing countries abroad. China does none of that bs even by having thrice the amount of border neighbours.

you mean their occupied subjects not friends.

i would literally kill for half the amenities they have in China.

they got it wrong and removed the benign tumour unfortunately

Correction, that was a benign tumour.

they should’ve just prayed and cattered to the imperialists like India.

As malcolm x once said “The West doesn’t not have any love for China but it respects it, while they love India but they do not respect it.”

These very same jerks would love China if it was just another uwu Japan/SKorea hosting US troops.

You’d be surprised, the worst thing that could happen to you while traveling to really any global south country is getting scammed (overcharging for a meal or taxi) and that’s about it. Most people are very welcoming and will be friendly even excited to see a foreigner. It’s pretty much just Europe and North america where people treat you rude or at best just indiffirently if they see you’re a tourist.

Streamers ludwig and some other recently filmed a trip throughout mainland China and it’s pure good vibes.