3 ms·
Economic issue should have been raised in protest and could have converted to mass movement to reject a house of car park size or make it illegal for developer
by dragonsh 7y ago
Economic issue should have been raised in protest and could have converted to mass movement to reject a house of car park size or make it illegal for developer to build such home. Force government through peaceful protest to take measures like Singapore for house, health and education.
Universal suffrage is not a panacea, indeed in many democracies money decides who become the head of state. In two largest democracy USA and India its not possible to win elections without the support of billionaire or being a billionaire.
Funny part in Hong Kong Uber is illegal and Taxi license is traded at astronomical prices and govt can't do anything due to powerful taxi union lobby (consisting mostly of taxi owners), they also involve in HK CEO election. In universal suffrage it will still be similar large number of bodies with vested interests.
So a structural change won't happen unless it's really part of the protest.
Recently read one another view on democracy quite interesting, although do not agree with it. [1]
[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/08/shawn-rosenberg-democracy-228045 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/08/shawn-ros...
- y2kenny 7y agoAre you familiar with Hong Kong's public housing system? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong
- dragonsh 7y agoI am pretty familiar with it and how it failed the Hong Kong people, when government worked in the interest of billionaire real estate developers. The house ownership ratio will itself reveal the reality. Singapore learned from Hong Kong but did it much better and today one of the best example of public housing (they call it Housing Development Board - HDB). I will not go into details but its a topic of its own to discuss issues of Hong Kong real estate and get rich quick ideas based on it.