China took Japan's model and instructed it thousands of local banks to make loans for productive investment. So China financed a shit ton of companies and people to start building.
It most certainly is a lack of money that prevents building.
The best thing you can do for building is to give smart people a lot of money and get the fuck out of the way.
Re:On Cultures That Build
by kazagistar on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:52AM
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Its because they aren't expected to finance the building themselves. Its the insane expectation that the destitute will be able to drive economic development that keeps making the housing divide, amongst other class divides, so massive in the USA.
No, it's not money, it's something else. "Build Culture" is a good name for it, whatever it is.