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China’s Butler Boom
On a recent morning at a butler-training school in Chengdu, China, lessons began at 8 A.M., with an exercise in “opening the villa.” When I arrived at the gated development where the school is housed, a middle-aged student was on her knees scrubbing the pedals of a grand piano, while another sidestepped vacuum cleaners to hoist immaculate white furniture onto a balcony. A rotating cast of young Chinese women in black blazers took turns offering me coffee.
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Make no mistake, China is a house of cards. The middle class is all about cheating/counterfeiting, they want higher wages, and there's simply not enough to go around. US businesses will move operations to either India or Vietnam, and China will be left in the dust. There's not an original thought in their head except "How do we steal from everyone, slap our label on it, and sell it for cheaper".