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Kowloon Walled City ended because it was attacked by the state, rather than through market forces. Many of those people are now likely in worse shape effective
by ty6853 2y ago
Kowloon Walled City ended because it was attacked by the state, rather than through market forces.
Many of those people are now likely in worse shape effectively renting a cage sized bed, but now paying the governments cut on top of whatever black market shenanigans goes on in both the slum housing and kowloon.
- kiba 2y agoKowloon Walled City was neither a dystopia nor a utopia. It works and was able to maintain itself, but it could have been done better if it was actually supported by the government.
- gsf_emergency 2y agoThat's "just" a bug-feature of common law systems >The Kowloon Walled City was exempt and remained under the control of Qing China. https://www.thecollector.com/kowloon-walled-city-lawlessness-and-claustrophobia/ https://www.thecollector.com/kowloon-walled-city-lawlessness... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999-year_lease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999-year_lease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999-year_leases_in_Hong_Kong#Valuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999-year_leases_in_Hong_Kong#V...