i don't understand the fascination with these ghost cities. they're just giant failed businesses.
imagine if they built vegas and nobody came. that's it, in a nutshell. it's not that weird.
imagine if they built vegas and nobody came. that's it, in a nutshell. it's not that weird.
Funnily enough, the person to first advocate as little interventionism as possible for government was Chinese philosopher Laozi, who compared governing a nation to frying small fish for lunch: too much stirring and lunch is ruined.
There are good reasons why this happens in China, but it's still super weird.
That's fucking weird... I wonder on what scale it becomes weird to you. Imagine we built 100s of cities on another planet and just left it empty...
I do appreciate, if this is the point you want to make, that literally every newspaper, tv station, radio show, photographer etc has done a piece on Ordos. I've read the same article a million times now and it's totally uninteresting. But that's a function of overreporting, it's still inherently interesting to me.