I saw a video on Reddit showing the demolition of dozens of vacant high rise buildings in China. In addition to what you might expect, the comments alleged a “Ponzi scheme” in the housing market, and that some were still paying mortgages on the destroyed buildings. Any idea what’s happening on that front?
Again, like I said in another post like this one. It’s hilarious and sad how quick redditors are to jump to conclusions about something they know incredibly little about. And of course, when people bring up slumlord companies in the US buying up land and housing and displacing low income people, they always accuse us of jumping to conclusions and how we have to be “nuanced”. These people are completely dishonest, it is useless to engage with them.
Yeah, redditors are racist and delusional, which is why I asked here. I was wondering if you thought the video was faked or if this doesn’t happen as often as propaganda implies. Or is it really a problem China faces? If so, how did they get here?
Without knowing anything about the video, there’s countless examples where “Chinesr ghost cities” have become actual populated urban centers. China is thinking long-term.
I remember the first time I learned about this was from a Vice documentary that a friend showed me. In the documentary they visited a “ghost city” and showed large skyrises that were occupied by less than 10 people (the whole city had barely 1000 people in it), unopened metro stations in the middle of nowhere and huge but empty schools, hospitals and department stores. They then made some comments about corrupt politicians giving our huge contracts to construction companies for bribes and for an artificial way to make it seem the economy was growing. A few years later I looked up that place, and it was already a city with a population of 150 000 people.
Most likely the video is real, but taken way out of context or painted in a particular way to fit the narrative of “ghost cities”.
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I couldn’t tell you, there’s no context given. If you have me a video of an apartment building being demolished in NYC without any context, I wouldn’t be able to tell you anything either. All you can do is speculate, and some others in here have some to offer. Maybe it’s faulty construction, maybe it’s unsafe, I don’t know. No, I wouldn’t say it happens as often as propaganda implies, because first of all, you don’t really know what is actually happening here, and second of all, it’s one video, there isn’t any implication that it’s happening everywhere. You could make a compilation of buildings being torn down in the US and come up with the same effect. The simple answer is, I don’t know, can’t really make any conclusions about it. If there were more information as to why it was taken down, where it was taken down, and what exactly was taken down, it’d be easier.