Why China

Once upon a time in America, a state-sponsored healthcare exchange used a multi-hour Richard Simmons dance party to promote insurance coverage to young people. Somehow this is not the worst marketing ploy to youth a government has used in the last three years.

I’m not saying China’s recent plug of a rap song about Karl Marx takes the cake, though if we’re being true to the philosophy, it’d take all of it. It’s just that a nation really must be hard-up for ideas when its state media attempts to convince millennials that serendipity is what happens when you come across a copy of Das Kapital.