China's Hypergrowth Fueled By Building Giant Cities No One Lives In

[mrplunkey]

Careful with that... There are definitely ghost cities there, but:

1) china is doing well due to entrepreneurial efforts, and hampered by government planning. But net-net, they are still doing great.

2) when they do mess-up with central planning, they are still left with hard assets. We waste huge sums of money too, but it's on short (or zero) - lived assets.

Here's our hope. If we're lucky they'll attribute their success to central planning and do more of it. If they do, eventually it will strangle their entrepreneurial engine and we'll crush them.

But as long as we're at war with our own entrepreneurs and employers, what china does doesn't really matter because we'll collapse regardless.

 

[PICK3]

Here's our hope.

pre-emptive nuclear attack

 

[mrplunkey]

pre-emptive nuclear attack

Is that some kind of new geigh BDSM move?

Thanks for MO-ing up a China thread!

 

[PICK3]

Is that some kind of new geigh BDSM move?

Thanks for MO-ing up a China thread!

Long Yang?

 

[mrplunkey]

Long Yang?

Chinese version of your "Mr. Long John"?

 

[PICK3]

Chinese version of your "Mr. Long John"?

 

[EnderJE]

Careful with that... There are definitely ghost cities there, but:

1) china is doing well due to entrepreneurial efforts, and hampered by government planning. But net-net, they are still doing great.

2) when they do mess-up with central planning, they are still left with hard assets. We waste huge sums of money too, but it's on short (or zero) - lived assets.

Here's our hope. If we're lucky they'll attribute their success to central planning and do more of it. If they do, eventually it will strangle their entrepreneurial engine and we'll crush them.

But as long as we're at war with our own entrepreneurs and employers, what china does doesn't really matter because we'll collapse regardless.

The intent was to show another view of China vs the rosy picture that I see people paint on here.

The projects appear to be primarily infrastructure type projects (which seemed to be shunned when the US team wanted to do the same thing).

Instead, the money was given for other non-hard benefits / assets. Good times!

 

[mrplunkey]

The intent was to show another view of China vs the rosy picture that I see people paint on here.

The projects appear to be primarily infrastructure type projects (which seemed to be shunned when the US team wanted to do the same thing).

Instead, the money was given for other non-hard benefits / assets. Good times!

I got your original point and it's definitely valid.

The right answer for both countries is minimal central planning and maximum entrepreneurial activity.

Given that neither the US nor China do that, then their decision to spend on hard assets is better than our decision to spend on random garbage. But the right answer is to do an absolute minimum of both.

 

[PICK3]

I got your original point and it's definitely valid.

The right answer for both countries is minimal central planning and maximum entrepreneurial activity.

Given that neither the US nor China do that, then their decision to spend on hard assets is better than our decision to spend on random garbage. But the right answer is to do an absolute minimum of both.

^^^
translation into PICK3 speak plz

 

[mrplunkey]

^^^
translation into PICK3 speak plz

The right thing for you to do is stay away from teh cawk.

but given that you are gonna chase the sawsage, it would be better for you to give hand jobs (I.e. China) instead of being a power bottom (I.e. US).