Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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When the grasshopper plays and it’s the ant who suffers

January 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Heartbreaking story out of rural China via the LA Times: poor farmers defrauded in a pyramid scam involving–would you believe it–ants. Somewhere, a grasshopper is smiling a little too smugly.
The story illustrates the get-rich-now mentality here, the constant search for a new angle by those struggling to make a go of it with the [...]

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