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Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ... by coryrc on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:55PM (#35062500)
China's building massive amounts of underused housing. US boomers could have built long-lived buildings and infrastructure (high-speed trains) which provide usefulness to people later in exchange for them paying some money for retirees.

Instead, they built ever-decaying roads and rotting ticky-tacky boxes and left nothing durable for future generations. Hell, they even ripped out trains in cities across the country. (Seattle interurban among so many examples).

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Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ... by nradov on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:49PM (#35063122)
Construction quality in China is generally bad, especially in lower tier cities. Those buildings and infrastructure aren't going to last.
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Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ... by joelwilliamson on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:34PM (#35063561)
Wasn't the Seattle interurban torn up in the early 1940s? I don't think you can blame that on the boomers.
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Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ... by coryrc on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:34PM (#35064901)
That's probably correct. Burke Gilman trail ripped out tracks in the 70s though.
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Re:Strikes spread as French unions intensify pension reform ... by kaushikc on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:06PM (#35064694)
China is what the US used to be. Even Charlie Munger said that they are displaying more mercantile behaviour whereas the US is being protectionist and enforcing non-trade based policies across the globe.
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