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It's easy to build infrastructure quickly when you don't have to bother with property rights, worker safety or environmental impact assessments.
by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
It's easy to build infrastructure quickly when you don't have to bother with property rights, worker safety or environmental impact assessments.
- muhfuhkuh 14y agoEminent Domain is a very real and oft-used legal power that is given, especially by individual states in the US to seize property for whatever "public use" those governments deem worthy, including (but not limited to) road widening, infrastructure (sewer, electric, telecom fibre) improvements, and even private enterprise that trumps individual rights "for the greater good". Please don't think that China holds exclusive dominion over such a concept.
- prawn 14y agoI don't know that the two would be quite the same in practice though. It's likely that public reaction would be more of an issue in the US, etc?
- notdrunkatall 14y agoAnd if you have a virtually limitless supply of money.