Buying Time
The last commodity for sale to the highest bidder
4 min readFeb 3, 2019
“The rich people can live in perfect places and buy their own water, their own plants, their own meat, but what they can’t buy — yet — is their own air,” my host told me as he drove us through the thick brown atmosphere of Jinan.
“What happens to poor people is a scandal. They eat food that is rubbish,” Yimeng continued, smoothly…
