• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    Even with more property rights. If you own a house and you don’t want to sell it when they want to build a new highway, they build the highway surrounding your house, instead of expropriating you like in western countries.

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      tbh living there in the middle of a highway would be hell

      it is disappointing how despite how ahead china is in terms of public transit, they still build car-centric infrastructure like this. at least, unlike north america, shitty car-centric infrastructure is not all there is lol

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      21 hours ago

      Fascinating as it may be, that’s a pretty horrible picture.

      Imagine living that house. It’s a pretty stark demonstration of the state gets what it wants, one way or another.