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On the cultural side, I would say the Turkish soap operas are cutting edge, better produced than Spanish language ones. Of course, soap operas are not really that prestigious.

Regarding innovation, I wonder how much role social friction plays. I'm not turkish, but my understanding is that there is a lot of interpersonal negotiations in turkish dealings, who knows who, who owns a favour to whom. Which is related to corruption. You don't have that as much in the West, when you deal with someone it doesn't matter as much who you are and who you know.

They can build a Las Vegas in the time San Francisco can build a train station.

Now imagine if they turned this focus to something else.

I was thinking more about drone video, you can see the scale better:

https://youtu.be/4nrdHYL5eq8

Can you buy a house with cocaine? A car? Stuff from amazon?

What if the person you sell cocaine to for dollars to spend on Amazon reports you?

What if you get an IRS audit, how do you justify the funds used to buy the house?

Yes, you'll be able to use crypto on black markets, but that is hardly covering all your needs.

Cryptocurrency might not be seizable, but it's also not spendable if the gov says so.

Just try bartering for something with cocaine to see what I mean.

People should google some (night) videos from Chinese cities like Shanghai or Wuhan.

You might be shocked by how they look like.

I think few in the West realize how fast China is moving.