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“The people grading it couldn’t say anything other than how great the service was,” Torres said, adding that having already invested in custom equipment to fit through the area’s narrow streets helped his case.

"Imagine you're a customs officer who must inspect every parcel through multiple machines with different functions and then sort them into the right bins," Zhang says.

Brands must not only overcome high customs duties, a cumbersome bureaucracy and infrastructure limitations, but also must compete with a robust domestic luxury market.

According to the study, people living during prosperous times may have had more resources and opportunities to focus on burial customs and beliefs about the afterlife.

But curiously, and perhaps ironically, his range of interests, though in fact reprising venerable leftwing sympathies, may also chime with the sort of conservatism that values settled skills and customs—a settled pace of life.