All those who have spent late hours playing SimCity
3000 and never understood why the damn thing would never get
any people to move into it, will derive a deranged pleasure
from the following clip. In China, where 8% GDP is guaranteed
and has to be "goal seeked" by any and every increasingly
more deranged economic project, the authorities have taken the
game of SimCity and applied it to real life. Alas, they started
out on "difficult" level.
Ordos is a hyper modern city, full of brand new glass walled
residential and commercial buildings, yet devoid of inhabitants.
In its attempt to present a "growing" economy, and
to "invest" its $585 billion stimulus into anything
and everything, courtesy of comparable idiocy on the other side
of the Pacific, China's communist party is now ruling over ghost
towns. One wonders just how many such "efficient"
projects sustain China's magical 8% growth.
"When the people find they can vote themselves
money, that will herald the end of the republic."
- Fall Of The Republic - Buy
the DVD here
