I'm mostly just laughing at the notion of "being obligated by the government to show up on time to dinner" as some death knell to American freedom to leave other people waiting.
Every restaurant in China has a CCP commissar standing next to the host, if you're late they make sure to personally inform Xi, and if the host doesn't have a table ready for you they're summarily executed and the most senior waiter becomes the host
oh duh, just become a playground for the capitalist class! I can't believe that Palestinians are so obsessed with "national sovereignty" and "the right of return" and "food" that they never thought of that one!
Fair point, didn't intend any ableism but it definitely is. Think I should take it down? Mostly just venting about (NT) friends not showing up to a planned social event because eg they "forgot what day it was on" when I sent a reminder the day before saying all of "tomorrow" "wednesday" and "april 17th".
China has Schrodinger's communism, it exists in a state of both being capitalist and communist at the same time. For reasons unknown to science, within restaurants the uncertainty levels tilt ever so slightly towards capitalism in China.