Curious why population is even a factor here. If it legitimately should be... why not compare states of the US with states of the EU? (Seems a roughly equivalent thing to do)
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But hey, let’s publish a pointless paper... because academia.
Regardless what your view is, are you seriously suggesting companies should break the laws of the countries they operate in?
Before you say: “unjust laws, yes!” Consider what laws Chinese consider unjust, should they be allowed to break them within the US?
I would err on the side of: if you don’t agree with the values of a country then don’t offer your services. Capitalism, of course puts no value on values, so profit is the only ethical code a business should follow (logically).
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
They factor how far a head you can see, and how much time you need to react. Lots of cars/bikes can obviously tear through them faster. But that means they are just taking much more risk.
That said, perhaps auto driving can respond quicker, but I’d imagine that doesn’t change most of those ratings give. The time needed to avoid accidents is largely due to physics not reaction speed.
There is no cost to requiring ID... It is you conflating the cost of acquiring an id with the cost of requiring one. As Australia shows, it can be done with a zero cost (birth certificates and Medicare cards are free)
Australia acheives a 90+% voter turn out. (Compulsory voting through fines) even our poorest are able to vote, that remaining 8% who don't vote are overseas, or missing.
US is lucky if it gets to 60%
The US system has serious problems that completely undermine a democracy... But hey, let's forget the forest and focus on this one tree right here.
Okay, provide some evidence government officials are 'skimming' from (all) toll roads. That's a pretty big claim, and as far as I can tell, the tolls are either private companies or government run tolls, that isn't corruption, that's taxation and enterprise.
So they don't have affordable housing because they don't allow enough things to invest in?
All truck drivers have to overload their trucks, and hope they don't get fined?
China's a big place, are you sure your statements apply across the whole nation. Or are you pretty much referring to domestic problems in a particular city?
Housing is not affordable in the Bay Area (SF)... is that also because they don't have enough to invest in?
Truck drivers the world over, are over worked, under paid, and have to resort to drugs, over loading, and sleep avoidance to make it... Is that because of corrupt toll road owners?
China has (some) the highest logistic costs in the world? Are you sure about that? Can I see a chart of 'world logistic costs'?
GDP/capita is pretty shitty in china, I agree. Because time/money ratio is so crap, people are prepared to spend time, to save/earn more money, hence toll roads being an issue, and house speculation being an issue.
But no other country has increased GDP/capita faster than china (and on the scale china has) in the history of GDP/capita records.[0]
So exactly what are we criticising?
[0] http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly...,
Show me the a google maps image of a road that is a under used, and I'll find a bigger road in the US that is used less.
People buying houses and not living in them isn't "china building ghost cities" that's "people buying houses and not living in them".
By all means believe western propaganda all you like, but given you live/work in china I'm surprised you don't see it for what it is.
Edit: Note people said the EXACT same thing about china "building roads no body needs" in the early nineties. Now china are running license plate lotteries in order to keep traffic bearable. Just have a sense of scale, when you are trying to migrate 350 million people into urban centres, you need to build a lot of houses.
- Dig it out of the ground
- process it
- Fabricate the unprintable bits
- Store all of this
- Print whatever the consumer needs in less time than it takes to drink a coffee.
So unless this make believe "shop" is fronted onto a processing/fabrication plant, which is itself, fronted on a magical mine that you can dig up any resource you like. Your scenario can never happen.*
* Or we could invent teleportation.