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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (29 children)

There's this thing called land ownership which is a right...the state can eminent domain them but they'd have to fight it in court.

Doubt they have that in China, if your home is in the way of a planned development...it won't be soon. You don't buy land from the government there, it's on a lease basis.

That and everyone in politics has to be aligned. If the top down order is to build a HSR, no cog in the system can just slow shit down for the hell of it. Doesn't work that way in the US, as witnessed by the myriad times that the government can never approve the budget before it's due.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

America: bulldozes entire neighborhoods to build highways, displacing everyone with minimal compensation.

China: Nail house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And everyone is free to fight you in court and sue the shit out of you if they find a flaw in your design.

Btw, don't you think that there are others that want to stay but didn't get a chance to? It's just the one dude who gets no water or electricity? No one else wanted to stay in the whole neighborhood?

What do you think happened before nail houses?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And everyone is free to fight you in court and sue the shit out of you if they find a flaw in your design.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Wonder how wealth plays into the material reality of going to court. phoenix-think

How many of those lawsuits against eminent domain in the USA were successful btw?

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