"May you live in interesting times" is a made-up American thing that isn't actually Chinese but I don't mind it so much because the sentiment it expresses is accurate to Chinese beliefs (as well as being generally accurate) The one that gets me is "crisis = danger + opportunity"
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the office of personnel management never loses
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but more seriously if you're wealthy then when the crisis comes and everyone else is having a fire sale to stay afloat, you can buy up their land for pennies on the dollar i feel like there's some sarah taber thread about homesteader economics in this vein
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