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@okaythenfuture "About XX % of Southeast Asians currently earn more than 1K+ a month. By 2030 that will be about XX % of Southeast Asia. Malaysia is the closest towards mass prosperity. Singapore not included for obvious reasons"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-09-17T11:57Z 33.4K followers, 740K engagements

"Indonesia has been itching to cut a deal with Israel for YEARS. And Israel has as well because Indonesia is the largest Muslim country on the planet. Now that Gaza has been temporarily shelved aside the long awaited deal will be cut and sealed and it likely was lubricated via Eric Trump with whom Prabowo has cut some business deals in Jakarta with. But leftists on here will tell you that Israel is about to collapse when Muslim elites dont give a fuck whatsoever"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-14T01:35Z 33.4K followers, 23.3K engagements

"Its actually embarrassing for Thailand that happens Thailands immigration enforcement actually accepts bribes and looks the other way on this even though many of these industrial investments are conditioned on Thai employment and employment for the locals. Thailand governmental competence is noticeably declining"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T02:48Z 33.4K followers, 2531 engagements

"Was discussing this with a friend the other day but the Golden Age of Expats is indeed over. Back in the 90s/2000s an expat from the West would be hired with full housing provided and paid for tuition fees for the kid at posh international schools maids provided. Im talking even middle management hires from Dubai to Tokyo this was the status quo. This doesnt happen anymore even for C suite hires those kind of benefits packages available are long gone. This is a generational change given there are far more qualified local talent these days and also given just how inflation has increased even"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T09:00Z 33.4K followers, 14K engagements

"Ill give India this Its building subway systems at a 2000s China like pace and this is also extending into airport construction as well. Mumbai opened a new subway line and an airport today. Mumbai in a decade or two might be considered the latest in a long line of superstar Asian cities"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-09T12:33Z 33.4K followers, 90.4K engagements

"Asia is probably the best continent in the world to play Golf in at this point. You have so many next generation golf courses established around resorts malls country clubs and of course the fastest growing category around affluent gated communities especially in Southeast Asia. Asian women have already taken over the women's golf game but I would say based on what I'm seeing they'll also take over the men's game in a decade to two. This is an image of a new megamall in KL based around a golf course. So the idea is that people will shop then head down to the green. The Asian Century"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-12T05:32Z 33.4K followers, 7058 engagements

"Not rushing to immediately analyze these happenings when they drop has been the best life move Ive made in the past few years Just let things play out as they will Most of the time it usually is just not that big of a deal Its not the end of the world. Now I know for a few of you in physical supply chains it is a very very stressful time but the digital world has never been better so all good here"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T01:05Z 33.4K followers, 1577 engagements

"This is exactly why I didnt even bother to analyze any of this on Friday because I knew it was prelude to some bullshit that would be resolved by end of the weekend or some bullshit agreement within a few weeks. Instead of buying the dip though people were contorting themselves into massive essays on here. When in doubt dont panic be a normie"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T01:03Z 33.4K followers, 3635 engagements

"You are living in the era of - The First Intelligent Machine era(2020 - ) - The Great Jewish Renaissance(1948 - ) - The Second China Shock(2018 - ) - The Great European Stagnation(2008 - ) - The Smartphone Era(2007 - ) What other era are we in"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-02T03:06Z 33.4K followers, 11.2K engagements

"End of the day Pakistani military elites can buy homes in the US run illicit scams from South Dakota linked corporations and easily send their kids to colleges in the USS. and then expect them to get extended jobs in the states. America is an empire which allows elites globally to use it as a global commons China does not yet offer these benefits to third world elites this could change one day but not yet so can one blame Pakistani elites for playing their personal game"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-04T12:59Z 33.3K followers, 19.9K engagements

"@fncischen Yes the arguments that it has no culture no art no media presence is huge cope. One of the most popular shows on Netflix in Asia currently is a K drama set in Dubai"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T01:36Z 33.4K followers, 4544 engagements

"That Indonesia needs 30000+ migrant workers from China to help to mine its nickel says things about both the Chinese and Indonesian economies both charitable and uncharitable. For China it shows just how varied and hungry its workforce is but also the extent of the desperation in Chinas rust belt in the northeast where most of these men come from where they feel grateful to chase very poor wages in Indonesia as manufacturing in Northeast China has collapsed from its peak. For Indonesia it just shows how in a country with massive unemployment it still depends on Chinese labor for something now"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T02:38Z 33.4K followers, 36.4K engagements

"@zenjournalist A million names Justin Yifu Lin Yu Yongding Zhou Xianghuan among leading contenders Chinas rise was built on a lot of really ambitious economists who packaged theories that fit Chinas political and societal climate and built the fastest growing state in human history"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T13:43Z 33.4K followers, 2668 engagements

"No there is no real path China intends for nearly all foreigners to come there for work and eventually leave Maybe this changes in the future but as of now its very hard for even most working professionals who worked there their whole life to stay past retirement age(assuming they didnt marry a Chinese citizen). Only like 2000 people a year even get Chinese PR and Permanent residence status in China only lasts ten years lmao"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-12T11:02Z 33.4K followers, 1432 engagements

"@etherealearthh Yes a very European styled design for cities with a completely different history There are gated developments in Dubai and Asia that do look like this though themed housing"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T02:07Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"In this thread you will see a lot of cope Coping is an epidemic these days"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T02:35Z 33.4K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@GregHerczeg The median Chinese individual would definitely be happy with the income and living standards of your average Anglo. China is an insane grind for its median citizen"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-08T14:40Z 33.4K followers, 1415 engagements

"This is false. There are tons of walkable neighborhoods in Dubai Dubai does have wide roads yes and a car oriented design but it also has one of the worlds fastest growing metros which will be extremely extensive in a decade. Dubai isnt really sunbelt urbanism its more Chinese urbanism + some vestigial Arabic architecture"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T01:46Z 33.4K followers, 5312 engagements

"@Danielsrotaryo1 @fncischen WRONG. I know many people in Dubai and this is false It has tons of real culture and real communities. Its very far from both Vegas and Miami. Only haters say this"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T01:48Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Partition was the foundational event of both India and Pakistan and was very bloody yes but it occurred prior to the nations birth And Pakistan found itself afterward literally in civil war with its bengal enclave mere decades later Surely you cannot compare the Naxals to 1971 And I maintain what I said go outside with a baddie in Singapore and eat some good food lah instead of moaning about Indians all day on here. In fact eat some good biryani some great options in Sinkieland lah for that"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-10T07:47Z 33.3K followers, 3155 engagements

"Ive seen a lot of hating on this tweet but Im inclined to agree with it. The happiest people I know are all fully locked in on their personal lives in a huge way if a news story or development is honestly big enough to impact your life youll run into it regardless(COVID lockdown). But XX% of developments are utterly meaningless to ones life and you would be best served focused on creating your own beautiful garden. If one must be news focused make it oriented on news around your city as well as that helps to build local bonds and roots"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-11T04:18Z 33.4K followers, 16.8K engagements

"New York had its moment in the sun but the city is no longer expanding towards anything It hasnt built a new subway line since the 1940s barely can modernize the housing it already has and the weather doesnt help. Its always going to be a major global hub but it would be false at this point to call it the greatest city in the world or even the most influential. By the way I agree with you just enjoy the city for what it is no one person can reverse or alter these trends"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T03:25Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"America will still be a huge economy with a big consumer market its an open question if it can stay on the cutting technological frontier edge but its likely to be a clear number X with a strong position in the Pacific Europe idk I dont think about Europe that much or make predictions about it I can just see the trendlines that Dubai is ascending to take all of EMEAs lunch as a city in itself and in combination with Abu Dhabi"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T01:33Z 33.4K followers, 4077 engagements

"@NoDiddy76 Its almost like entertainment does not actually matter for a citys or countrys hard power projection Is Puerto Rico better than Poland because it produced bad bunny lmao And regardless Dubai is going to churn out more cultural products anyway so this is a moot point"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T02:36Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@MusingsofAwe Smart. A lot of options via Air Force"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-16T02:03Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"This is a very important tweet for two reasons. One because robotics yada yada important you already know that. But because it highlights that Japan is still a MAJOR FUCKING PLAYER in this space. People like to often act as if China has entirely taken over the robotics space and while yes China is a leader in pure industrial robotics installation and on cutting edge humanoids Japan is still the world leader in the actual industrial robotics technology FANUC in particular is a monster. Japan is for all its faults not going to go away on this space and a lot of investment still circulates there"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-08T09:37Z 33.4K followers, 18.9K engagements

"Hard truths no one in the West wants to accept these days: - The Greatest City in the world is no longer New York or London its obviously The Greater Bay Area that you dont even know what the Greater Bay Area is the fault of your media. - its getting increasingly harder to tempt the Asian upper class into visits to America because the cities are quite frankly disgusting in the last month alone X baddies here have told me that they hate New York because its filled with homeless and bums especially on the subway. A city that cant even maintain its subway system is a joke so yes the nyc premium"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-16T01:33Z 33.4K followers, 9959 engagements

"Indonesia is in many ways Asias perpetual country of the future. Asias Brazil if you want to frame it like that"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T02:39Z 33.4K followers, 4635 engagements

"The reactions in this thread kind of reveal an important thing about life people cant see whats coming until it actually comes. And whats of genuine value will stay underpriced until that happens. It will take the West about another twenty years before they fully admit that the best urbanism on the planet and all the vitality is now in Asia. By that point it wont be as underpriced and as amazing value as it is now. The herd will never lead you to the action it prefers to hang out on the nyc subway and pretend its still the greatest city in the world 😂"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T05:58Z 33.4K followers, 26K engagements

"@shanks_it This is cope lmao. Dubai is also far more of a world hub than Tokyo btw 😂"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T02:19Z 33.4K followers, 1741 engagements

"Theres a weird pipeline in Asia where men come here from the West wife up a woman and then become an extreme nationalist for said country. I dont know if these men are pussy drunk or whatever because their wives usually arent political but its very weird and I need it to stop. But what do I know Im just a XX year old man with a Javanese wife in Jakarta who believes Indonesia is destined to dominate the world"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-09T06:20Z 33.4K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Exactly China would never allow HK citizenship to become a proxy way of entering China China has no intention of allowing mass immigration in any format or scale at the moment and it wants genuine wealth or scientific mastery as the markers needed to actually stay there for the long haul"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T03:53Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"I have said this before but Singapore is massively behind on robotaxis. This country should already be wired day and night on every road with the best American and Chinese models it should make San Francisco and Shenzhen look like a joke but you come here and its all ICE Cars. I have to do this from time to time for your own good there's too much Singapore glazing on this site by people who barely know the island. The city is no longer a real trendsetter by Asian standards nor does it have world class governance anymore. Its living off LKY edits designed to fool you"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-08-22T02:26Z 33.4K followers, 52.5K engagements

"It would be hilarious if the Saudis in reaction to a potential shutdown of the WNBA create a rival woman's league that pays way higher than the WNBA's weak salaries and then actually just have all these liberal lesbian American women front as spokeswomen for Saudi Arabia. Since Saudi Arabia seems committed to sportwashing they may as well make it completely absurd. Have fun with it"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-03T14:50Z 33.3K followers, 6131 engagements

"@Butt3rlov3r @Danielsrotaryo1 Imagine acting enraged while youre on my feed 😂 And yes I still think a deal will be cut It might not be this week but in the next few years it has very high odds of being cut Indonesias elites want it"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-14T04:34Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"The fact that India has never had a civil war or a military coup since its independence is as impressive as Chinas economic development since the 1980s. No one else in South Asia managed to do that and India has tons of fault lines that could have developed in that direction"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-10T07:31Z 33.4K followers, 67K engagements

"@TheMindScourge I think American/Western futurism just looks fundamentally different compared to Sino/SEAFuturism Asia resembles the cyberpunk future we though would be global The West chooses to reject that look for something else. But it does need to soon present its own vision"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T01:28Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"I know actual New Yorkers who would leave New York TODAY for Dubai. New York is just PR at this point terrible city to live in although the suburbs are still fine. Too early for Riyadh and MBS is a bit errant in focusing on new towns like NEOM instead of just putting all the energy into Riyadh but a few good projects like the metro there"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T02:49Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@Linahuaa Not sure about Europe but this is false in the American case In America lower class TFR has fallen faster than upper class TFR TikTok + on demand media + relentless abortion promotion everywhere has kind of sedated that class"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-16T01:37Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Dubai by mid century will likely have the same cultural presence and economic dominance that New York City occupied in the 1960s. It will be seen as the quintessential crossroads of the world the de facto EMEA hub(usurping London/Pariss role) and also one of the primary Asian gateways. People will be fighting to live there but unlike now the doors wont be as open. It doesnt look like that now but just extrapolate the current trends. Dubai is fundamentally open in a way that no other first world zone is Its open to practically everyone and it continues to gain trust as a high performance zone"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T01:25Z 33.4K followers, 292.4K engagements

"That would be considered Non STEM in China And if its related to software engineering or just standard tech wouldnt be considered a critical need really as theres enough talent in China to deliver on that China is a grind because it has so much talent and theres already an unemployment crisis there so its not easy for most foreigners to break in Most foreigners in China are either teaching English(the usual go to play) or affiliated with a foreign multinational and were posted there The few actually affiliated with Chinese businesses are normally executive level or core scientific level"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-12T10:46Z 33.4K followers, 4649 engagements

"Its becoming a massive joke that no Chinese Economist has won the Nobel Prize in Economics in the past thirty years. They could have even picked one from Taiwan Hong Kong Singapore but nope too yellow as well"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T13:19Z 33.4K followers, 51.7K engagements

"Its not fake news though Its clear this was a trial balloon to see domestic reactions on the ground given Prabowo himself is already in the region and Indonesian newspaper sources themselves have confirmed that Indonesia and Israel were quite close to a deal pre Gaza. Falling to see that theres clear smoke here because you laughably want to think Indonesian elites arent corrupt or self interested is up to you"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-14T04:28Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"I dont think itll be a replacement for America but in the global cultural imagination itll loom far larger than any American city mainly because of accessibility. You can actually dream about Dubai and visit it That wont be the case for New York City and LA in fortress America"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T01:55Z 33.4K followers, 7583 engagements

"It says a lot about how siloed celebrity is now that the biggest music artist on the planet dropped an album a few days ago and unless you are in her tiktok/instagram/twitter sphere you probably haven't heard even one song know the album title or anything about it at all. Even our biggest stars now are cultural midgets compared to the pre-internet era when they were genuinely inescapable"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-06T14:42Z 33.4K followers, 10.2K engagements

"One of my followers tweeted this awhile back But we are truly in a golden age of culinary delights. A tier X Asian city today has far more cuisines high end restaurants and all kind of creative chefs taking risks than NYC + LA had in 2000. You can eat a burger today in Surabaya that if it had been cooked in LA in 2001 would have won awards. You can get Ethiopian food in Batam(small Indonesian island) actually run by actual Ethiopians. This has been a complete global wave thats washed over the entire world and is still deeply unappreciated and I would say unknown outside of the West"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-11T06:33Z 33.4K followers, 15.1K engagements

"Exactly its ridiculous Zohran Mamdani would never have a chance to govern New York for example if New York City had metro area elections Like everything from New Haven to say Cherry Hill should all be in some NYC metro governance authority that has complete power to set housing and tax and education powers in that scope. Theres a lethargy in the West that just refuses to refresh outmoded systems of government"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-16T01:40Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"And if it is a supremely big deal and the end of the world Well focusing on yourself was still the better play as you still dont control these events or the play by play. So might as well have locked in on your activities full scale"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T01:07Z 33.4K followers, 1257 engagements

"@JohnDoe34631032 This is the wrong analysis ASEAN is completely split on the issue But it doesnt matter much because ASEAN has decided to not become a civilizational pole or federation of its own so it doesnt need to align on this issue"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-13T01:40Z 33.4K followers, XXX engagements

"In 2045 your child will leave your house and sit in a fully self driving BYD Han Merlion. He will watch a Chinese interactive drama generated via TikTok while in the car where he will then also whip out his Oppo phone and go on his deepseek app which will be fully in command of his personal schedule. He will get out of the car to meet his baddie girlfriend at a Haidilao branch they will discuss the latest WuKong game hes played and what AI Labubu hes getting her that Christmas. They will be served by the Unitree Server X9 model who will dance for them while they savor the delectable meats"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-08T07:29Z 33.4K followers, 26.2K engagements

"48 % of China so about half can comfortably order on a weekly basis a $X meal from food platforms like Meituan only X % of Indonesians can. That shows the extreme gap in quality of life between the two. XX % comfortably can order a CAR(before Indonesians here try to argue about ordering bikes instead) on their taxi apps only X % of Indonesians can. These numbers would look even worse compared to India and Africa btw. A great way to compare the quality of life in different developing regions is to actually consider the amount of the population that can comfortably use gig platform services"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-09-19T07:08Z 33.4K followers, 22.6K engagements

"If America really wanted to finish off Canada all it needs to do is push for a freedom of movement agreement with it. The outflow of talent and capital would pretty much effectively end the Canadian national project within a generation as well as gradually deflate Canadas insane real estate bubble"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-09-23T02:59Z 33.4K followers, 14.1K engagements

"Regions of the world I absolutely do not care about and avoid all news on - Latin America - North Africa - All of Europe expect Russia - All of the Middle East expect Israel + UAE + Saudis The only regions that matter to me - Southeast Asia - America - East Asia"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-15T23:51Z 33.4K followers, 3968 engagements

"I'm retweeting this because its a very important tweet. As much as China's accomplishments deserve a lot of hype Zero Covid was also one of the most insane episodes of Chinese governance especially past the initial stages. I was one of a few on here bashing it in 2022 because it had gotten to too far of a lunatic state. And from the expats + Chinese i know who were in China at the time its still left a lot of trauma clearly especially those in Shanghai or Shenzhen. I wish I could say lessons have been learned from it but unfortunately I think we will probably have another pandemic within the"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-05T15:55Z 33.3K followers, 17K engagements

"One of the most interesting parallels between Southeast Asia and China currently is that just like China practically all Southeast Asian megacities expect for Singapore have a massive glut of properties which has led to general rental deflation + tons of trouble for development companies. But yet even with this glut that would need a decade to be sold off new condo buildings are constantly going up from Bangkok to Manila. One rumor Ive heard is that Burmese money in a rush to flee Burma is behind quite a lot of it now in terms of purchases holding up the market"
X Link @okaythenfuture 2025-10-14T07:04Z 33.4K followers, 14.4K engagements