Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.
China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn’t look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.
The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.
Meanwhile in America the “middle class” is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?
This is a 100% spot on take. I live in one of the supposedly “richest cities of Europe” and every damn building was constructed between 1950 and 1970 (much thanks to the Royal Air Force bomber command).
Nobody builds any new shit, it’s just the rent goes up and the cars in front of the buildings get bigger and bigger. I guess that’s progress or something.