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A comment on Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’. Parent comment

Re:Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ by crdoconnor on Friday July 28, 2017 @06:00AM (#14873147)
This is essentially the result of what happens when a country prioritizes "economic freedom" (investor supremacy).
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Re:Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’ by awkwarddaturtle on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:43PM (#14875552)
It's actually a result of colonialism. The british and the elite hong kongers lived like kings and took the lion share of land/wealth and relegated the ordinary hong kongers to poverty.
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