Re:Asia's new aristocrats
by garply on Thursday January 20, 2011 @04:12PM
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Learning about the hukou system disturbed me at first, but the longer I live in Beijing, the more I approve of the system in some form. There are too many people here. Live with Beijing's traffic for a couple of years, or push more people than you can imagine can fit into a crowded subway train. There are not enough resources to go around. How would you deal with it?
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Re:Asia's new aristocrats
by yummyfajitas on Thursday January 20, 2011 @05:04PM
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There are not enough resources to go around. How would you deal with it?
Allow prices to rise until people stop coming. For traffic specifically, impose congestion prices and raise them until the traffic reaches a reasonable level [1]. Allow the same process to occur with rents, food prices, etc.
Also, don't impose unnecessary regulations which would prevent construction to increase capacity.
[1] If the price is high enough, it will make financial sense to increase capacity.
Perhaps deporting you to the countryside would be one small first step. Or is restriction of personal freedom only okay when it isn't applied to you?
Wut? hukou is just a citizenship system. Much like how mexicans just can't wander into the US, or Chinese can't wander into Korea. Every country operate the same way, just that in China it's more local because of its feudal history persisted longer.