Beijing is clearly an important opportunity for us, as is London.
The dealer is still bending over backwards to sell the car and could even be taking a loss on the deal. It is a tremendous buying opportunity if you are in the market for two cars.
On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.