Originally Posted by Kuan

I'm saying we're used to accomplished women. She works at HQ and starts up product lines in factories. When I say it's different I mean exactly what I said. People are damn grateful for their jobs which are few and far between here. They have no idea about life outside their own or what's possible. They seem to be oblivious to the types of opportunities available aside from what they can immediately see.

It's tough to break out of this spiral. Some families have been poor for decades. They didn't make the switch from agrarian to industrial to information ages very gracefully.