I don't hear anyone laughing! Pretty sure most around here can recognise a good way to make money - especially when it's so familiar already in other contexts...
If we hired some interpreters and a bunch of us headed over to Shanghai for this purpose there should be plenty to go around!
I'm pretty confident if someone did it, they'd probably come back with a fair bit of sourdough. Nothing excites my compatriots like some good ol' speculation.