The West has no clue how far it fell behind.
For example, how long does it take to build a train station?
🇨🇳: 9 hours
🇨🇦: 7 years snd counting, and no sign of a station exists.
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2. How long does it take to sink a train station underground?
In 🇨🇦 or the 🇺🇸? Probably at least a decade.
In 🇯🇵? About 3 hours.
3. How about that construction site by your home that’s been blowing dust around for years?
How long does it actually take to assemble a 10 story tower?
In the West? About 2 years after approvals.
In China? A day.
4. How do they build bridges in your town?
Because this is how they’re assembled in Asia.
5. Those are easy though.
What if the government needs a high tech research facility for the military?
🇮🇳 does those in 45 days.
6. It’s not because we don’t have smart people. Tiny Mile is Toronto-based, and they build robots that make deliveries cheap & accessible, which will be a game changer for mobility impaired people.
Toronto banned it, now they’re in Charlotte & Miami. We hate talent. 🤷♂️
7. Plutocracies force people into a handful of cities because it’s lucrative for large landholders to create scarcity when none exists.
Countries focused on national growth connect their cities so productivity takes priority.
High speed rail by country.
🇨🇦: 0km
🇺🇸: 80km
8. Oh hey. Young adults on TikTok are starting to wonder what the heck is happening in the West.
It’ll soon start to settle in that a new park or a couple bike lanes won’t fix this. Neither will stacking people in smaller cubes.
What happens then?
vm.tiktok.com/ZMFUXboRa/
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