It is impossible to be a good person and survive in a capitalist system.

It is impossible to be a good person and survive in a capitalist system. In the reading I thought Shui Ta is a good person but he is actually not at the end. He helped his cousin Shen Teh a lot in the beginning, he helped her to run the shop, to kick away the bad people who lived in the shop, and help her to arrange a wedding so she can pay the expensive rent, but at the end he is a bad guy who tried to sue Shen Teh’s tobacco factory. Let me get back to my point, whast’s the definition of being a good person? Helping people out what they need, care about others, not being selfish, just like Shen Teh, but I think she is being too nice. There’s one point that I feel like she doesn’t have her own idea, she follows people blindly. During one play, Sun and Shen Teh are arguing Shen Teh’s marriage with Shu Fu, after Sun persuade Shen Teh that she should married the one whom she loved. Shen Teh then agrees to marry Sun.
The reason I think the good person Shen Teh can’t survive in a capitalism system is that she relies on people too much, she relies on her cousin Shui Ta a lot so she can succeed in the tobacco business, if she doesn’t have her cousin, she will be giving free stuff away, rice and tobacco, she is a person that doesn’t know how to say no. that’s really bad, people can take advantage on her easily.
Being kind is absolutely a good thing for everyone when it comes to relationship, but if you are talking about surviving in a society and earn money, I’d say it’s quite hard.