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How are more people not talking about the futuristic cities in China? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hexi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.

China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn't look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.

The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.

Meanwhile in America the "middle class" is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?

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[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having buildings that can last long term is mostly a good thing (The 1920s construction in Vienna for example is great.) But I can't imagine that something thrown up in 3 months in 1952 is going to be particularly well built.