2. How long does it take to sink a train station underground?
In ๐จ๐ฆ or the ๐บ๐ธ? Probably at least a decade.
In ๐ฏ๐ต? About 3 hours.
3. How about that construction site by your home thatโs 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 theyโre assembled in Asia.
5. Those are easy though.
What if the government needs a high tech research facility for the military?
๐ฎ๐ณ does those in 45 days.
6. Itโs not because we donโt 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 theyโre in Charlotte & Miami. We hate talent. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
7. Plutocracies force people into a handful of cities because itโs 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.
๐จ๐ฆ: 0km
๐บ๐ธ: 80km
8. Oh hey. Young adults on TikTok are starting to wonder what the heck is happening in the West.
Itโll soon start to settle in that a new park or a couple bike lanes wonโt fix this. Neither will stacking people in smaller cubes.
2/ ๐จ๐ฆ is now in a frenzy about beneficial ownership. No one knows who owns anything.
Weโve got drug dealers, dictators, oligarchs, foreign militaries, you name it โ all stashing their cash into housing, knowing ๐จ๐ฆ wonโt be able to seize it.
๐จ๐ฆ has always known this.
3/ in fact, ๐จ๐ฆ arguably put up road blocks to ensure you wouldnโt figure it out.
Property registries are prohibitively expensive to access.
How are you supposed to analyze the size of a problem if you canโt access the data?