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Had to listen to several of my coworkers discuss China's "empty cities with houses for millions" and tried my hardest not to have a stroke. I desperately wanted them to understand how anything relating to city planning works, but only 1 of them actually pays any attention to the things I say and the other 2 think I'm too young and naive to really understand the world, which is annoying to hear from some of the most privelledged people at my place of employment.
"More houses than people, stupid commies. Don't they know you're supposed to have less houses than people so the people have to fight each other for them and the people who lose don't get a house to motivate everybody."
Not even the whole "stupid commies have more houses than people" more like half-remembering the stories about the Chinese ghost towns that were popular prior to the neighbourhoods in Chongqing being completed and people actually moving in.
Meanwhile 30 minutes outside of most major cities look like the setting of a fallout game because of the logical conclussions of capitalism.
I visited chicago and there was, at the entrance near the like on-ramps for the highway (off-ramp?) densely packed tents along the road.
the US has more houses than people, what are they talking about.... a lot of them just stand empty so homelessness can be maintained.
Those aren't empty houses they're unrealized investment opportunities.
Unlike the Chinese who lack the ability for forward thinking.
The most famous ghost cities are Pudong (5 million inhabitants), Chenggong (A quarter of a million inhabitants), Ordos City (Between 300000 and 2 million inhabitants depending on how you count it) and the Zhengdong New Area (1 million inhabitants)
I was reading the same dumb ghost city bullshit when I was in high-school, in the 90s. How does shit like this stay alive?
ah, they are too old and indoctrinated to understand new concepts
That story was all the rage in the late-00s. The westoid mind cannot comprehend future planning.
do they not understand how long term thinking works? I guess it's hard to do so if you live in a society obsessed with quarterly profits and nothing else