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It would make an interesting film(book/documentary/comic?) where the protagonist is laid off because the factory in Anytown, Georgia closes down and by some magical plot contrivance he is able to move to Shenzhen and get his job back.

You could go a lot of different ways, or several at once, with this set up.

This is the excuse-plot around Shenzhen IO; you then spend the rest of the game making awful novelty tchotchkes

Given the experiences of my white friends in China, a laid off factory worker moving to Shenzhen would have done extremely well for himself, especially back then.

You know what you kind of hit the nail on the head there -- that narrative has really been pushed by a lot of sources and that kills internal drive if you think all your efforts are for naught.

I don't believe that narrative though.

Also your comment too late for exponential asset growth -- that never stops (see crypto, AI Stocks, tooling stocks, etc). The cycle always continues.

"Born too late to enjoy exponential asset growth."

Unless you bought Bitcoin...

Just wait til you lose your computer job.