train-shining

  • ThenThreeMore
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    32 years ago

    If it’s a problem caused by Western capitalism, why hasn’t China fixed it in the over 25 years?

    • MultigrainCerealista [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      They doubled the average size of new apartments by outlawing the appalling tiny units that the British establishment encouraged and by engaging in actual planning concerning land use, another thing the British colonial era ignored.

      Now it’s about 50-90 sqm for new apartments which is the same as other high density cities like Barcelona. New York for example is 50-70 sqm.

      They estimate a further gain of 10-20% in floor area per person by 2030.

      Thanks China!

      Your dumb ass should start questioning your assumptions because they’re wrong.

      • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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        72 years ago

        I recently saw a mini-documentary about the segmented apartments in Hong Kong, and how because now they’re banned, some of them have been made into mini-museums as a kind of walk-through PSA about the horrific conditions people were forced to live in only 20 years ago. As interesting as things like that and the Kowloon Walled City are from a historical point of view, I’m glad that the government turned it into a park and people have better living conditions now.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Having examples for people to see is essential for making sure people remember what they came from and why they shouldn’t want to go back to it. This is something I think communist countries need to get on more efficiently, museums of capitalism and its historical conditions. This is also very important to capitalism, with its museums to feudalism and (at least here in europe) heavy focus in education on feudal lives).

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      322 years ago

      You’re absolutely right. The One Country Two Systems approach isn’t worth the paper it’s written on now that the Brits are flagrantly interfering with HK’s affairs.

      The PRC should immediately integrate HK into Guangdong Province, arrest the real estate oligarchs and seize their assets.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      302 years ago

      Because you don’t just throw people out of their homes without a viable alternative. Viable alternatives take time and resources to build, neither of which are infinite. As @Kaisen@hexbear.net has already explained, this is already being done.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      why hasn’t China fixed it in the over 25 years?

      Because when China under Deng took it back from Britain by basically telling them “fuck off or we’ll do it by force” and Thatcher agreed (knowing full well they could not fight to keep it and would have had very little support for that anyway other than the western shitholes which were more concerned about the USSR and other communist countries in europe than China at the time), one of the requirements of the deal that Britain made was to keep the current system with unchanged policies for 50 years. This was signed in the Joint Declaration.

      This blueprint would be elaborated on in the Hong Kong Basic Law (the post-handover regional constitution) and the central government’s policies for the territory were to remain unchanged for a period of at least 50 years after 1997.

      So if you want to complaint to the correct people responsible the way it is currently, complain to the British.