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Strangling the growth of cities and labor mobility is very much a rational economic problem: * https://www.axios.com/sky-high-home-prices-are-thwarting-thwarti
by nerfhammer 9y ago
Strangling the growth of cities and labor mobility is very much a rational economic problem:
* https://www.axios.com/sky-high-home-prices-are-thwarting-thwarting-economic-mobility-2466575966.html https://www.axios.com/sky-high-home-prices-are-thwarting-thw...
* https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/the-other-side-of-hard-to-build-cities/530310/ https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/the-other-side-of-har...
Cf. China, which has seen unbelievably explosive growth in its cities in the last 40 years and China has also seen ~1 billion people lifted out of poverty during exactly the same time period.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoSure. This is inspite of the hukou system, which is basically a kind of apartheid that keeps rural migrants from receiving services in the urban locales they are working at.