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In St. Louis at the Tivoli theater.

Reaffirmed my hatred of unjust inequality and highlighted the insanity of a dysfunctional economic system that rewards smiling right at rich tourists more than productive hard work.

Most certainly made my obsession with not wasting food worse, although that wasn't an issue really for even the peasant family profiled.

Hopefully scared me into working harder as soon as I stop procrastinating by writing about it.

Clear that China is getting richer and more powerful with an aggressive government involvement in economic activity (the damn being one fractionally small albeit physically large example), but as far as being socialist in any sense of the word that implies equality or justice... well the story one of the people featured early told covers it: "A Chinese leader and an American leader are sitting in the back of their limousine when they come to a fork in the road. The American says let's go to the right, the capitalist route. The Chinese says let's also go right, but turn on the left signal."

Very cinematic. But...

Documentaries that try to pretend there's no camera there, that are clearly filmed more like a movie, still weird me out.