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Is killing people required to build things quickly? I think you might conflating issues. How many people die on Chinese infastructure projects?

• vernie 7y ago
  A bunch.
• AlotOfReading 7y ago
  The 3 Gorges dam claimed over 100 lives before it was completed. I wasn't able to find fatality info for other large chinese dams, but I'd imagine they're not significantly better.
  • ukoki 7y ago
    Is 100 lives that bad? This [1] source says 250,000 workers were estimated to be working on it in 2003 so we could estimate 5 million worker-years for construction. That's an annual death-rate of 0.002%. By comparison this [2] source says the average death rate for 30-34 year old males in the US is about 0.2%, or 100x more likely. 1. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/13/china.threegorges/ http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/13/china.t... 2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age-and-sex-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...
• aeternus 7y ago
  Safe, cheap, and fast. Pick any two.