It is now five years later and the disparity between the US and China in this respect has only gotten worse. But hey, that’s a good thing right?

  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    given the rule of law, the need to protect property and defend workers’ rights

    He’s making it sound like there are roving bands of lawless of engineers that are press ganging people into building railways in China. Very cool and punk, but not very factual.

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      8 months ago

      i think this is spinning gently towards the “anything impressive built by non-whites was done by aliens or slave labor” thing.

      meanwhile the US was literally built on slave labor of course…

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      It feels like extrapolating from how chinese people were treated building the USAs railroads except you figure the problem is the chinese people and not the USA

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      8 months ago

      The implication to me was that China would just pave their HSR lines over whatever was in the way, which is exactly how America built its highway system. But of course China has a longstanding tradition of so-called “nail houses”, where a single homeowner refuses to sell to the government thus forcing them to build around the house because they respect people’s right to live where they want too much to just pave over it.