China's Many Ghost Towns of Abandoned Mansions (2024)

11 mooreds 3 6/23/2025, 9:20:55 PM architecturaldigest.com ↗

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tehlike · 4m ago
janalsncm · 11m ago
Jeffrey Wasserstrom made the interesting point on Lex Fridman’s podcast that for political reasons China settled into an equilibrium of building too much while the US settled into one of building too little. In China it’s kickbacks and building with credit and selling homes that don’t exist. In the US it’s NIMBYs and environmentalism and austerity politics and everything bagel liberalism.

My hope is that people who believe government should work make it work better for more of us. In tech we are pretty clearly the beneficiaries of government investment and R&D.

mikestew · 1h ago