To get people interested in the feature, Uber poured money into Pool,
deeply subsidizing the cost of the shared rides to drum up interest.
Unless China is able, very improbably as I have argued, to reform the financial sector
deeply enough and quickly enough, the
cost of a more competitive (i.e. more highly
subsidized) export sector is ultimately a rise in the debt burden, unless of course Beijing is willing to tolerate higher unemployment or to implement greater wealth transfers from the state to the household sector.