saw this on a post comparing shanghai in 1987 to now.

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      7 months ago

      The hilarious part is that of course China is going to have cheap, shoddily-made buildings, builders that try to skirt regulations, local administrative corruption, and so on. Every country has that, it is simply impossible to have everything be 100% perfect, as there is no utopia and never will be.

      The thing is, those things happen in China at absurdly lower rates then they do in places like the US, where oftentimes it’s legal or entirely unenforced. For every terrible building built by a corrupt company, there is an entire housing block of such buildings in the US.

      It’s like using a magnifying glass to find a ding in someone’s car as proof that their car is about to explode… when your own car is on fire.