In a place like Northern Myanmar, the average daily income is below one US dollar. Yet in this mining district's tent shops, a single injection costs one US dollar, and a slightly larger one costs two. Compared to life elsewhere, this was still considered getting by.
And because of the proximity to the source, these "drugs" were cheaper here.
While Li Xiang was scouting the area, he discovered many of these "tent shops." After all, there were far too many Scavengers and miners here.
In a place like this, there was no other form of entertainment. Besides scavenging for ore, the only thing to do was to "enjoy" drugs in a crude shack.
Consequently, AIDS was also rampant.
With a daily income of less than one US dollar, and a single injection costing one to two, it meant that all the value they created with their lives was harvested by the drugs.
They used drugs to control the miners and the general populace. In the end, all the money flowed into the pockets of a select few.
