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They have entire cities with empty houses if I remember correctly, and the ultra high speed rail is immensely inefficient as air resistance is raising in square proportionally to speed
I think building houses that will never be used as similar bad as to less housing..
Do you have a source for the housing thing?
In terms of the rail having air resistance that feels a bit of a Fox News point. It's not perfect so why bother with anything but loads of big cars?
The sheer amount of rail rolled out in the last 10 years dwarfs anything any other country is doing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/even-chinas-14-bln-population-cant-fill-all-its-vacant-homes-former-official-2023-09-23/
For the housing thing
Super weird. I didn't know about that.
Probably the state invested so heavily in the sector that they created a bit of a bubble. Then to have them slow down suddenly would pop it.
I think it's wasteful but not as bad as having not enough houses for everyone and a housing market that's sucking most of the populace dry.
With a bit of innovation, maybe the market will find a use for all the apartments.