Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.

China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn’t look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.

The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.

Meanwhile in America the “middle class” is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It’s pathetic. I was in Minneapolis when the I-35 bridge just up and collapsed. Majorish city, population of millions, I-35 is one of the country’s major transit cooridors, and this giant fucking bridge just folds one day.

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      1 year ago

      Minneapolis has like 400K people. Even if you add St Paul you still are only up to 750K. The full metro area is 3.7M but that’s including a LOT of decidedly not urban areas

      Edit not saying that means their bridges should collapse but it is definitely not comparable to any cities in Asia.