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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Libs 15 years ago: dumb Chinese over producing housing, you know they're sitting empty, right??? How can you make money from housing if there's such a surplus???

China now: Ghost cities provide affordable housing for young people. They have become functioning, normal cities

Americans/Australians/Brits now: will rent or live with parents until inheriting property. If they're lucky.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Conjured out of nothing and lived in by seemingly no one, China’s so-called ghost cities became the subject of Western media fascination a decade ago. Photos of these huge urban developments went viral online, presenting scenes of compelling weirdness: empty apartment towers stranded in a sea of mud; broad boulevards devoid of cars or people; over-the-top architectural showpieces with no apparent function.

Bloomberg spinning "they built towns and then got people into them" as an ineffable oriental mystery, lol.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I gotta play some city builders this weekend

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

I cannot stop building socialist utopias after installing some good mods on cities skylines. It might not be literally socialist in game but in my heart it is.

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