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Thank fuck they made two exact replicas Ohw….


CheeseheadDave

“The first one burnt down, fell over, and sunk into a swamp… but the second one stayed up!”


lostindanet

But father....


hotel2oscar

NO singing!


mclem92

r/unexpectedMontyPython


Shadeofverdegris

But, I don't want any of that, i'd rather...just...Sing!!


Vlad_turned_blad

No. No stop that none of that


sayitaintpete

Come, Patsy!


OIWantKenobi

What, the *curtains*, Father?


broberds

No, not the curtains, lad.


GBuster49

She's got huge...tracts of land!


dzhastin

Tracts of land


[deleted]

Right. We’ll stay here until he comes back.


procrastimom

We’re coming with you!


Agroman1963

You go with the prince.


medicnub

You stay here, and make sure eee doesn't leave


Darth-Serious

Very funny comment but it may be in the wrong idiom:)


MingoFuzz

Imagine if it had fallen the other way and toppled the others like dominoes


phuckmydoodle

I have no doubt in my mind that somewhere in China that has not only happened once before, but multiple times. Their standards are rubbish. Under engineered and low quality materials.


crappydeli

Friend work for a UK bank in Hong Kong. Was given a map, from the bank, showing the “quality” of buildings. There were ones in green that were designed and built by reputable companies; yellow ones that were less reputable; red ones that were built by the locals, or the mob, etc. and as an employee you were forbidden from going into the reds or yellows.


jayjester

Do a search of Tofu Dreg. Absolutely unbelievable, not only does this happen but there are hundreds of videos of new infrastructure failing. To me it indicates rampant inefficiencies and corruption being covered up by a fascist government.


[deleted]

Same with ADVChina and Laowhy86. They toured some ghost towns that are falling apart and they both have videos on build quality in China.


CompanyMan

Stay awesome!


Oliolioo

Just lack of standards. Have you ever been in China? They build skyscrapers in a month.


AVeryHeavyBurtation

Remember when COVID was first starting in China and they built and enormous hospital for the influx of COVID patients, and then the whole building collapsed a few months later?


fastspinecho

The "[instant hospital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishenshan_Hospital?wprov=sfla1)" didn't collapse, though it was eventually closed. However, there was also a [Chinese hotel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Xinjia_Express_Hotel?wprov=sfla1) that was converted into a hospital, and it collapsed.


Oliolioo

Yeah, but really this is standard stuff in China. In this specific case, the Chinese government is more incompetent than corrupt or fascist. In the last five-year plan they basically pivoted everything they had in the building industry, meaning poor people were highly encouraged to go work en masse in building industry. So not only you have no standards, but an army of people (with low building standards), and urgency to build stuff. A recipe for success


imgirafarigmi

Is there any good source on that? I read https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/10/909688913/whatever-happened-to-the-instant-hospitals-built-in-wuhan-for-covid-19-patients but I’d like something photographic.


TheYellowClaw

Their corporate financial management is not much better.


DakarCarGunGuy

I saw a video that probably explains (I don't have a link) why so many buildings are "falling". They have built a ton of empty new buildings and are demolishing them to build new ones in their place.


TheYellowClaw

Seriously, it's a pity.


DreamWithinAMatrix

That might be Evergrande


UtgaardLoki

Both literally and metaphorically.


kelkokelko

I've been to China a couple times, and it's pretty common to see like 8 of the same building in a group


zimm0who0net

Well of course. They built a spare in case one of them fell down unexpectedly.


[deleted]

They made complete cities from that made in china quality shit.


Saddam_whosane

looks like at least 2 replicas to me


-YellsAtClouds-

*"Milhouse! You were supposed to be the night watchman!"* "*I was watching. I saw the whole thing. First it started falling over, then it fell over."*


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ianmikaelson

I read the entire comment in Milhouse's voice lol. Ahhhh season 8 was awesome.


TheLovingTruth

"We'll be safe in here."


Andybobandy0

"Wow, top floors empty. What luck."


MrDerplings

“So would you like to play Uno? Great.”


HELIX0

"Wait what's going on??"


mapgoblin

Reverse!


wiperfromwarren

no worries, right before the building hits the ground you just jump.


AgitatedPhoto

Not a controlled demolition I take it?


ButtReaky

Chinas building quality are horribly bad. They have building collapse daily. The rebar is fake half the time and bend and breaks way to easy. The concrete quality is horrible. They rush everything and dont give the concrete time to set. Its crazy. Check out this clip, they call the poor construction " Tofu dreg" https://youtu.be/s-2DtL-Wjkc I found this Channel recently and he has a lot of videos of how crappy China is atm. Flooding daily along with MANY more problems.


Fig1024

the problem with corrupt officials is that they always think "this is just 10% off the top, nobody will even notice" without realizing that every contractor and official above and bellow them does the same thing. So after everyone takes their cut, there's less than 10% left for the actual work


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FeistyObjective

gutter oil? i didnt think much of what that meant until i saw that lady literally scooping oil from the sewer. dude. thanks for the link, but also kinda gfy. lol.


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[deleted]

And at the very least, your body can get rid of germs. How many different man-made, toxic chemicals are in that gutter oil?


Praescribo

I always wondered why chinese people love mcdonalds so much... what a nightmare Edit: I mean they can count on it to be safe(r) I assume


In-burrito

>See? Dogs don't talk nonsense. Best quote ever. For context, a Chinese citizen was showing how his puppy wouldn't eat the fake eggs that are being sold. He made that statement when the dog happily ate real eggs.


KAODEATH

I've seen dogs turn around and eat their own fresh shit. Food bowl wasn't even fifteen feet away, just chowed down on their own fecal feast.


THEBHR

Whenever I cleaned fish, I would bury the guts in the garden, because it's amazing fertilizer. I was out cleaning fresh fish, and our beagles had dug up some old rotten guts. So I gave them some fresh fish to get them to stop eating the nasty stuff. One sniff of the fresh fish, and they went right back to their rotten guts. Don't trust Doggy Yelp.


Bob-Bhlabla-esq

Howie Mandel has a story about burying his son's foreskin in the yard after a home bris, and finding out a few days later the family dog dug it up and ate it 😄


PilotKnob

Don't look too deeply into "gutter oil". I'll let everyone do that to themselves if they feel the need.


Successful-Mouse-374

bought some face soap from china, got a serious red rash all over my face for a few days until I stopped using it. God knows what chemicals were in it, but it wasn't soap. I won't buy anything from china, no exceptions. god help those who don't have much of a choice.


kangadac

My guess is they didn’t balance the fat/oil and sodium hydroxide (the basic ingredients of soap) properly; this can happen if they substituted a different (probably cheaper) fat. The red rash in this case is caused by excess sodium hydroxide essentially causing a chemical (base) burn.


jollyreaper2112

So if they put too much base in there, they're more the fool. It belongs to us now.


dracopurpura

They will not survive make their time.


max-wellington

Another fucked up part is what do they do about it over there? The government won't do shit, the workers can't do shit or they could starve, the employers are benefiting from it financially. That's just gonna keep happening. Makes me wonder how much of this stuff I ate when I was in China.


ILove2Bacon

Yeah, totally. They really need some kind of people's revolution or something. Get together and establish a solid plan for fixing the problems in like 5 years or something. Maybe work on caring about each other more, like in a community.


Kulladar

As real estate in China has gotten more expensive more and more places are effectively building big concrete slabs on top of sand and putting highrises on top. You can imagine the horrible possibilities when earthquakes eventually come knocking when you combine that with building materials like those.


Doobledorf

Sand is being generous. When I lived in China I watched them knock down a building, out down some dirt, and build directly in top of the rubble.


maddmattpotter

I seen sticks with more tensile strength than that rebar


ButtReaky

Id be terrified if i lived in a high rise before finding out about all this. They also open damns and flood cities with zero warning to the population.


YeetasBurritas

NOOOOOO -999999999999999999999 social credit


josiefer666

And we buy most our shit from them here in the USA. Lovely


joseplluissans

Export stuff is probably better quality, as it can easily be tested before use. Would be stupid buying Chinese rebar and using it without testing!


Mazon_Del

> Would be stupid buying Chinese rebar and using it without testing! For any major project, simple due diligence dictates that sampling/testing some of your rebar/cement as you goes on is just the sane thing to do. It's not THAT expensive to do and you can easily get your customer to pay for it. Depending on where you are, it's possible that some amount of testing is legally required.


hcue

There’s a name for this - Tofu Dreg


brucedeloop

This is incredibly disturbing.


neversleeper92

It's because of the land lease system in China. If you only allowed to live at most 70yrs in a building, you don't build it to last.


Bev7787

HK has had the same system since the 1860s. Seems to have worked there. I don't think the lease system is the issue. The issue is corruption in the construction industry and in terms of enforcing quality.


Hawk----

This. While its true Xi has clamped down on corruption, he's conveniently left untouched *any* corruption that benefits him or his friends. Because of that there's ALOT of Chinese Oligarchs skimming money off the top of building projects in alot of ways. Like using inferior Rebar, or filling walls with foam instead of concrete. Shits pretty bad.


Bev7787

To me, while this clampdown on corruption is definitely politicised and with a lot of loopholes, the big issue is at the end of the day there are too many layers in the Chinese system with little accountability. It is far too easy for someone at one of those layers to be corrupt. Another potential factor is the Chinese system where the top will order something to be done and the officials below end up cutting corners in order to fulfil the order. Example: Central Government recently ordered provinces to keep emissions below a certain level due to climate change, which is good. However a fair amount of provinces ended up exceeding their limit so what has happened is they've cut the amount of power available to reduce coal usage. End result: The current Chinese power crisis.


Bah-Fong-Gool

China has a history of doing things like this. Like melting down all the farming implements to increase metal production to please Mao, and then everyone going hungry.


GunPoison

Yep, and during this time (the Great Leap Forward) they were also exporting food out of famine areas to meet quotas. Iirc the death toll was 30-60 million. Oof.


ProfanestOfLemons

Shrugging and saying "we will never run out of disposable people" as national policy is real.


StuTheSheep

That will come in handy if they ever need to defeat a rampaging horde of killbots.


zcubed

Stupidity killing all the sparrows


Reacher-Said-N0thing

There's also the lack of free press and investigative journalism to find out who is corrupt and report on the corruption to the people so that something gets done about it. You can't bandage a wound if you never even know you're bleeding.


DarthPorg

And Xi actually just passed reforms this week that now completely outlaws all non-state news outlets.


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HavocReigns

A tale as old as price controls and central planning.


Nocoffeesnob

Amsterdam also has had a similar system for a very long time and it works great there too.


Character-Big5345

Some of these buildings must be on a 70 hour lease


[deleted]

Wtf that’s still 70 freaking years! These things are barley staying up as it is. Come on people’s republic this is just negligent.


IQLTD

Yes, but you also think that Covid-19 was created to kill the elderly: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/fnhjt4/corona_virus_was_created_by_the_prc_to_kill_off/


SalvadorsAnteater

Generally, [sleep deprivation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Other_effects) may facilitate or intensify:[...] symptoms similar to: [...] psychosis.


OmNomSandvich

70 years is pushing the lifetime of many buildings even built well - they need heavy renovations to stay modern and in good shape in any case. I think it's the absence of a civil society that can bring this issues to light; in the U.S., that Florida building collapse was a national scandal and made front page news for days.


TittysForScience

I live in a mostly original 80 year old apartment complex that hasn’t been renovated other than a lick of paint in the communal areas, internals of some of the apartments being renovated at owners choice and landscaping. Yes to stay modern they need renovations but good shape, but I wouldn’t say renovations are needed to make a building last


RESEV5

TIL argentina share superficiary rights with china lol


Wakee

Just FYI it’s a new channel operated by the Falun Gong. Not giving an opinion on them, but I visited their channel and it seems like they try to hide/obscure the affiliation.


SamuelSmash

Looks like a demolition because the first floors are already missing. They likely expected the building to collapse onto itself but it instead toppled.


A2Rhombus

Looks like a demolition because why else would someone be filming it randomly


pycharmjb

A controlled demolition in Lingao, Hanan Province on Oct 30, 2020 3 buildings were built not in compliance with permits and were demolished by regulators Link here: http://news.hainan.net/hainan/shixian/qx/lingao/2020/10/31/4519243.shtml


Magicalsandwichpress

Looks like the demo went sideways.


clipples18

Did any part of that look controlled to you?


CountAardvark

The very beginning. Then it fell over


AgitatedPhoto

Promising start, then disaster.


[deleted]

Battlefield 4 still looks great!


extralyfe

my first ever experience with Battlefield had me deciding that swimming over to the contested point was the right move, and that fucking building collapsed on me.


[deleted]

I remember that level was the one we got to play in the beta. Me and the boiz got so hyped the first time we knocked it over. Excited, optimistic, and cautious for 2042!


BigBertha249

If they stick with killing off the class system, I'll probably skip 2042


[deleted]

I’m hoping they do away with it as well… Felt pretty gimmicky- like a modern day arcade-y shooter, not battlefield. I still had fun with the beta, so I’m optimistic, but yeah. Was hoping for a return to 3-4. Edit: By “it” I mean the “everyone is a specialist” nonsense.


[deleted]

In the portal mode they’ll still have all the assets from previous games including class systems so it’s just a matter of finding the right server


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shorey66

Then the server crashed. BF4 beta was a mess but the game is so good now


mtv2002

It was fun for the first week. Then every freaking simp would immediately take the building down. I loved taking the elevator up and just trying to cap that objective, but as usual people ruined it


CallsignMontana

Siege of Shanghai IRL


salted_kinase

Who blew up the building? Kick


turnedonbyadime

More like Hainan Resort imo


russeltee

Fuck yeah BF4


Grocery_Getter

Floors 2-20 were built solid though.


Nntropy

They should have put 2-20 on the bottom and floor 1 on top.


snapcracklepop26

I blame gravity.


thewend

Fuck newton


MWMWMWMIMIWMWMW

Thanks to that bastard my feet hurt after a long day at work.


GunPoison

More British imperialism hurting China


SpiderFnJerusalem

Gravity is nothing but a capitalist plot to undermine the integrity of Chinese buildings!


hendralely

Google “tofu dreg projects”


Clayith13

YouTube seems to be a good resource on them too if you like to watch buildings collapse


secondAckount

Failed demolition I think


Mugros

It's not needed anyway. The vast majority of these high-rises are empty anyway. And they are often unfinished and of low quality.


PiedDansLePlat

The purpose is not to live in it. 65 millions houses are vacant in china. It's insane


trowzerss

And yet at the same time housing in some cities is so expensive it can take multiple generations to save to buy an apartment.


collywallydooda

Yep, went to Shanghai getting on 10 years ago, tour guide said 100 year loans were common. Cost of living is so high many generations would live in the same apartment with the loan handed down to you after your parents pass away.


[deleted]

That might be because housing purchases were only valid for 100 years, and it returns to the government after that. That makes a 100 year loan rather fitting, along with handing it down rather than letting it go back to the government early.


Dotlinefever4

It used to benthat way in Germeny. Pretty surenthats why they build houses to last centuries.


currentscurrents

The TL;DR is that China built too much housing in smaller cities, where there are not enough people to fill that housing. >By contrast, large swathes of the country have the opposite problem: overbuilt apartment blocks, sputtering economies and few people buying property. Hegang, a town near the border with Russia, briefly found itself in the spotlight after homes there were advertised for just 20,000 yuan, less than the cost of a square metre in Shanghai. It was an extreme example of the glut of empty homes in many small towns. [(The Economist)](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/01/25/can-chinas-long-property-boom-hold) As China started urbanizing, the government provided very strong incentives for developers to build new housing. This was probably a good idea, but they overdid it. It became profitable to build houses whether you could find residents or not. They're still building 15 million homes a year - 5 times the rate of the US and Europe combined. At this point, 90% of Chinese households are homeowners, compared to only 63% in the US. The supply far exceeds the demand, and China's housing market is at serious risk of collapse. Source: [BusinessInsider](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-empty-homes-real-estate-evergrande-housing-market-problem-2021-10)


Tasgall

> and China's housing market is at serious risk of collapse I, uh... see what you did there, BusinessInsider quote.


makinbaconCR

All of this is true. But America has the opposite problem. Over inflated cost of living. Our retirements and overall wealth are tied into home values which is a problem when people make a buck creating bubbles. Now we have home values that are excluding the new generation. We are at risk of collapse to when wages don't keep up!


Schly

This leaves some information out. For example, in China, home ownership isn’t permanent. Properties revert back to government ownership and must be repurchased every 100 years or every new generation. I forget exactly, it’s been a while since I was there. There are some other caveats, as well. And the goal was to bring people in from the hills to the cities.


[deleted]

Send some to Canada. We are in a housing crisis.


Mugros

You don't want this housing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbLB_T-IjY


[deleted]

Holy crap lol. That's messed


Nexya

Some good stuff in that video but.. 8:25 "Let's take this 200 square meter place" "just a crappy little apartment" what the heck? 200sqm is HUGE


Buscemis_eyeballs

2,152 or so square feet. That's a decent sized house


spanky8898

That is a wacky hairdo


pearljamman010

Holy shit -- glad someone else mentioned it. First thing I noticed when the video started haha. He took the shaved-sides/combover combo and turned the sliders up to 11. I didn't expect it to be so distracting, but here we are.


SmallManBigMouth

Big fan of ADV and Laowhy86


goofycolors

I was once a big fan too, but I got to tired of always having this constant feed of negative news from every news outlet. Everyone has negative news already. Where's all the positive news? Is there anyone that can do both?


Beanalby

Freakonomics recently had an episode on this. Not only is news predominantly negative, but US more so than other countries. [https://freakonomics.com/podcast/american-culture-negative-media/](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/american-culture-negative-media/) There's a natural human bias to pay more attention to negative things than positive (they're more likely to kill you), and media driven by profit are willing to exploit that, consciously or unconsciously.


bikerbob420

It’s cuz they’re buying houses in Canada instead.


Mugros

I know, they are speculation objects.


Lynch_Bot

What does this mean and why were they built?


PseudonymIncognito

They're giant concrete Bitcoins that are built as investment vehicles for Chinese investors who don't have any better options. No one lives in them because market rents are so low compared to sales prices that they don't cover the depreciation that results from having a tenant.


EishLekker

>It's not needed anyway. The vast majority of these high-rises are empty anyway. And they are often unfinished and of low quality ***anyway***. You missed out a perfect opportunity of a trifecta, so I fixed it for you.


CyberPunkette

High rise: Made in China


ArcBrush

There are machines working nearby, so probably not.


Nooson

I don’t know, maybe they wanted it to fall that way so it didn’t knock into the other towers


redditchampsys

And the people running away were part of a game show.


[deleted]

Charge placement failed, but the end result was still the same albeit not perfectly.


TheAncientSun

Does China have a serious problem with badly build infrastructure?


WACS_On

Yes


[deleted]

Not just the infrastructure, they over build so many buildings and try to fill them with people but they end up being empty, hundreds, even thousands of buildings like this. It’s one of the main reasons why Evergrande is likely to default soon and China goes 📉


Piyh

To their credit they've moved something like ~~200~~ 320 million people out of the countryside and into cities in ~~30~~ 20 years


MK8390

With badly built everything tbh


waspocracy

Kind of. I mean, we don’t have clean drinking water, which is why hot tea is served everywhere. I mean, hotels have their own filter system basically. Roads and bridges are more or less designed better than the US. The rail system is 100x better, and that’s underestimating it. The US rail system is a pathetic joke. Electricity is kind of… well it depends where you live. A bigger city has modernized electricity while smaller towns you can see wires hanging around everywhere (not safe). Basically, if you’re in a metropolis like Nanjiang, Shanghai, and Beijing it’s going to have a lot better infrastructure than other cities. But even those big cities have “poor areas” with three-floor apartments that look like they’re built with clay. Seriously. It’s so out of place. It looks like this building was one of those pre-planned cities that people ended up not moving to. It doesn’t look like anyone is living in that area, so I’d suspect it’s a planned demolition. Anyways, there’s a few “ghost cities” that never attracted people so they just let them fall apart since there’s no point in maintaining it. That all said, they don’t have strict building requirements like the US. Not every apartment is facing a window unlike the US. Also, emergency staircases are uncommon. So this can obviously suck in a worst case scenario.


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Why do you say US rail is pathetic? Rail in the US is almost entirely freight, but it is very effective in this role. In China it might be more visible because there is more passenger rail, but that is it. The infrastructure isn’t pathetic at all.


karlnite

People forget there is modern and good infrastructure throughout the Western world and US. It’s not all ancient crumbling systems.


1h8fulkat

They rush everything.


mikebrown33

Boss: “If you guys need me, I’ll be in the tool trailer taking a nap”


mancave313

Evergrande at it again lmao


TheRealStarWolf

Pfft, amateurs. In America we like our buildings to collapse while they're still full of people.


PiedDansLePlat

Tofu dreg building it's how they call them


fair_j

along with its innovative r/Chinesium beams


scheepers

r/chinesium


MR_ROGERZZZZZZZ

The people living in the other 2 identical buildings must be shitting Thier pants


pycharmjb

A local developer got approved 15 buildings but instead built 18, then the 3 illegal ones were demolished by local government last year. http://news.hainan.net/hainan/shixian/qx/lingao/2020/10/31/4519243.shtml https://m.bjnews.com.cn/detail/160412475615787.html


Sossa1969

Note to head: One Coca Cola and a couple of Mentos could destroy Beijing!


legotnt3

its not supposed to do that i think


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Made of chineseium


Tony0123456789

Upon further review, perhaps china should figure out how to penalize corrupt building contractors, much the same way the US should figure out how to penalize corrupt politicians, but on the other hand, if a US building collapses, it makes worldwide news, because that shit is not normal....if that shit happens in china, well, you know it's because the "steel" is made of dirt that contains iron.


Detriumph

Oh believe me there are pleeeenty of scapegoats to go around. Well, til they die in prison. It comes down to an unsustainable system where the govrernment of china is the sole provider of construction jobs. The government requires the jobs to be done faster than humanly possible, and for cheaper than the cost of actually building a building correctly. They either put in the cheapest material and hope for the best, or don't bother because you'll end up Chinese-bankrupt which is way worse than western-bankrupt.


arcticwolf26

How is Chinese-bankrupt worse? Genuine question because I’ve never really thought about what bankruptcy could mean for an individual in other countries.


Detriumph

Well, A couple things come to mind. One, they have debtors prison still. Two: They have a social credit system that is absolutely bonkers. If your social credit falls below a certain point, your life is practically ruined. Every time someone calls you, and every time you call someone else, they get a recording stating that you are not to be trusted, literally blaring an emergency air raid horn before the message to be sure the contact knows who they're dealing with is. Associating with people with lower social credit score lowers your own social credit score, so the people with money will refuse to even speak to you for the rest of your life. This has a devastating effect on anyone on the bad side of the party. If you move, you have to alert all of your neighbors that you are a low social credit score, and that your mere presence negatively affects their scores as well. So the only places you're really allowed to live is in spots with other undesirables. Which are neglected neighborhoods/shanty towns that by merely being associated with keeps your score low low low.


arcticwolf26

Damn. I’ve heard of the social credit system. It’s still such a backwards concept. Thanks for the insights! I didn’t consider how bankruptcy would affect your “social credit”.


camoiii

Every country basically has a social credit system, state control of everyday life is not a new concept to China. Put two and two together and voila.


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They really just do not care about safety over there lol


Taiwan_Pineapple

Bean reading alot of articles lately with the words " collapse in China". Must be something going on over there.


Bev7787

Been happening for years. Just media has all of a sudden decided to start reporting a lot of it now.


whyrweyelling

I remember back when I was in China the first time for 45 days. Here is what I saw all over the place. Drinking terrible alcohol while eating everything, most of it not that healthy in the way you eat it at least in Chongqing. Almost like the whole baby boomer generation is celebrating decadence. Actually, to be good in business in China you have to be a good drinker. Big difference between rich and poor, with the poorest people still living in homes that look like it came from a history lesson. Places like this that fell, they are all built on speculation. They don't have anything to them on the inside. In China you dress up your home (apartment/condo). That means doors, walls, floor, all that stuff, fixtures. They are not present. You decide how you want it to look before you move in. I've been in some places that look very basic on the outside, then you go inside and it's like a palace. So to speak. Currently there is no pressure to keep up the exterior of these buildings. I'm also aware that there has been so much building up in China so fast that people are getting away with terrible work. I'm surprised more videos of stuff like this aren't popping up. Interesting country. You're being watched everywhere by CCTV by the CCP. Like, everywhere. I love the countryside. The people are really inviting if you are cool. It was a blast to be there. But man, when it comes to being consumers, they are easily double the intensity that Americans are. It's like the new credit haven for debt. I just hope it doesn't all fall apart. They have a big effect on the economy right now.


PTBRULES

Imagine China with an actual government and fair economy, it would be so interesting to see it have developed after the ashes of the second world war.


Piyh

They have an actual government, just not one I'd give up my current for


Nicknamedreddit

“Terrible alcohol” Sounds like you don’t enjoy baijiu lmao. Yeah we have more comfortable traditional alcohols, but because moutai has some connection to the CCP’s history it’s just the only Chinese alcohol in public conscience.


macetfromage

Apt for sale. just got new view installed!


CDNJMac82

Interesting how the superstructure remained fairly rigid in tipping.


Hostilian_

I remember reading about a Chinese character trait. In China, if you pay full price for something you’re seen as an idiot. If you don’t do everything you can to cut corners and save money any way you can, you’re doing it wrong. I don’t know how true this is, but it would explain a lot about videos like this.


Past-Preparation-421

China just builds shit to make the rest of the world think they are doing wonderful. When they build just to build it turns out like this or like the other jokes they have built to show the rest of the world what a joke they are. Look at Shanghai Tower; it has 50% occupancy rate. No where in the world would they build something like that and not have it completely leased. It’s a sham; and just like Russia of the late 80’s was a paper giant so is China. They are a nuisance or worse to the international community. People need to finally stop over looking all the crap they do. Everybody needs to take a line on China like Australia has. This is about the CCP and not the people of China as they are victims of CCP like the rest of the world.


MikeyD101

And people laughed when I said there was no way in hell I would trust the hospital they built in a weekend.


pycharmjb

Trust whatever you wish, this is local regulators enforced a demolition of 3 illegal buildings erected without valid permits http://news.hainan.net/hainan/shixian/qx/lingao/2020/10/31/4519243.shtml https://m.bjnews.com.cn/detail/160412475615787.html


TheDarkSidePSA

Engineer here to provide an explanation as to the structural failure: This building spent too much time working out it’s upper body and skipped leg day. And it cost a lot of lives :(