at the time, there were many luxury salons targeting the wealththy, but there were few that the new middle class could afford. he saw a business opportunity there and launched his own hair salon. there are no licenses for hairstyle lists in china. until recently, hairstyling was considered a low-status provision and tho profession and those worked for free at first to gain experience. he left his hometown to earn money for his older brother's university tuition. he came to shanghai at the request of his father where he washed dishes and waited on tables. he started gaining experience as a hairstylist after the tuition was paid. in between his busywork schedule, he always visits his father's home in shanghai. his father still works in the city. he has been superintendent of this apartment building for ten years and sends money back to his wife. the superintendent's office serves as his father's home as well. back in his hometown, he was a farmer who also worked in the village office. in order to earn enough money, he brought his son along with him to shanghai. he's been working in the city

we've got all the mechanisms in place that allow the business community and the wealththy to contrtrol the polilitics. you all know these stories. they're the ones who fund the candidates; they're the ones who fund the parties; they're the onones who hire huge armies off lobbyisists to work on an ongoig basis with whoever gets elected. and they fund all these think tanks that produce endless resources and reports and researchers and specialists for the radio and the television to shape the consciousness of what americans see, hear, and think. and the e end resusut are events sort of like the two political presidential conventions in which not a word is said about the system, not a word is said of the sort i've just finished telling you about in which they each blame each other as if the politicos had the power to do much about all of this. but there's no systemic analysis, no systemic recognition. what else about this system is bizarre? well, one of the results of the shaping of consciousness is the following kind of really strange idea. it goes like this: if you give corporations a ch