Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The Tofu Building Incidents" video.

  1. You can Anglify "tofu dreg project" as "breadcrumb buildings."
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  2. Strange error when there are so many dam collapses in China to choose from. Most of them were built in the Mao era at the same time the US and Soviets were damming rivers so, of course, China tries to one-up everyone at the expense of human life and massive amounts of money. Many of the dams did not have engineers involved, others had no stated purpose for their construction, others simply had neither the budgets or or time to be built right. Ten thousand were built, and dozens collapse every year since.
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  3.  @gohawks3571  There was the Boston Mollasses Flood in 1919. Weird stuff happens when you industrialize rapidly
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  4. Also China Insights
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  5. There's more reasons than that. One is the government owns the land and local governments get a lot of their revenue from leasing it. No one builds anything meant to outlive the lease. Also, housing/construction is the only industry not dominated by state actors with unfair advantages so it's loaded with ponzi schemers as there are no limits on leverage
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  6. Or india. In one case they tossed down a giant carpet that looked like pavement until you walk on it
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