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???
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.
“Why would you build new things when you could just let the old buildings dilapidate instead? Truly the Celestials have a mind unknowable to the White Westerner.”
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.
I remember thst when I knew less about China and had more propaganda brain and seeing the results come to fruition at roughly the same rate of time I got China pilled was neat. The contrast of my own city wasn’t, landlords profits doubled wages stagnated.
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.
Bloomberg spinning “they built towns and then got people into them” as an ineffable oriental mystery, lol.
“Why would you build new things when you could just let the old buildings dilapidate instead? Truly the Celestials have a mind unknowable to the White Westerner.”
You know us inscrutable Chinese. Unreadable, unknowable, unpredictable yellow men from the Orient.
I gotta play some city builders this weekend
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.
I literally name my city New Stalingrad every time
I remember thst when I knew less about China and had more propaganda brain and seeing the results come to fruition at roughly the same rate of time I got China pilled was neat. The contrast of my own city wasn’t, landlords profits doubled wages stagnated.