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Foxconn: China's days as worlds factory are done
cdev:
All that head butting must be really good for their studies!
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--- Quote from: cdev on August 27, 2020, 07:44:26 pm ---Here in the US, 20 years ago it was stadiums. Lots of cities ended up building stadiums to allegedly create jobs, employ the chronically unemployed, attract business to economically distressed areas. Many of them turned out to be financial disasters. Stadiums sit, occupying space that previously supported vibrant, if poor communities, in the middle of huge parking lots that rarely get filled. That money would have been better spent on education.
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Hopefully not to be spent on university education. This big priority in every US university seems to be to build a big stadium.
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BravoV:
--- Quote from: coppice on August 28, 2020, 02:25:53 am ---
--- Quote from: cdev on August 27, 2020, 07:44:26 pm ---Here in the US, 20 years ago it was stadiums. Lots of cities ended up building stadiums to allegedly create jobs, employ the chronically unemployed, attract business to economically distressed areas. Many of them turned out to be financial disasters. Stadiums sit, occupying space that previously supported vibrant, if poor communities, in the middle of huge parking lots that rarely get filled. That money would have been better spent on education.
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Hopefully not to be spent on university education. This big priority in every US university seems to be to build a big stadium.
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Remembered the old games called Simcity, which is a simulation in building/running a city, that a big stadium is one the game requirement to boost city's growth if I'm not mistaken.
At least that what people in those era believed, 80s to 90s I guess.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: BravoV on August 28, 2020, 04:31:00 am ---
--- Quote from: coppice on August 28, 2020, 02:25:53 am ---
--- Quote from: cdev on August 27, 2020, 07:44:26 pm ---Here in the US, 20 years ago it was stadiums. Lots of cities ended up building stadiums to allegedly create jobs, employ the chronically unemployed, attract business to economically distressed areas. Many of them turned out to be financial disasters. Stadiums sit, occupying space that previously supported vibrant, if poor communities, in the middle of huge parking lots that rarely get filled. That money would have been better spent on education.
--- End quote ---
Hopefully not to be spent on university education. This big priority in every US university seems to be to build a big stadium.
--- End quote ---
Remembered the old games called Simcity, which is a simulation in building/running a city, that a big stadium is one the game requirement to boost city's growth if I'm not mistaken.
At least that what people in those era believed, 80s to 90s I guess.
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American city planners still believe this...
coppice:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on August 28, 2020, 01:43:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: BravoV on August 28, 2020, 04:31:00 am ---
--- Quote from: coppice on August 28, 2020, 02:25:53 am ---
--- Quote from: cdev on August 27, 2020, 07:44:26 pm ---Here in the US, 20 years ago it was stadiums. Lots of cities ended up building stadiums to allegedly create jobs, employ the chronically unemployed, attract business to economically distressed areas. Many of them turned out to be financial disasters. Stadiums sit, occupying space that previously supported vibrant, if poor communities, in the middle of huge parking lots that rarely get filled. That money would have been better spent on education.
--- End quote ---
Hopefully not to be spent on university education. This big priority in every US university seems to be to build a big stadium.
--- End quote ---
Remembered the old games called Simcity, which is a simulation in building/running a city, that a big stadium is one the game requirement to boost city's growth if I'm not mistaken.
At least that what people in those era believed, 80s to 90s I guess.
--- End quote ---
American city planners still believe this...
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The ultimate stupidity here is olympic stadiums. They have become white elephants, so huge there is nothing you can do with them after the olympics. They are so big that the crowd is so far from the action that nobody wants to stage regular events like soccer or baseball in them. They couldn't even give the London 2012 stadium away to one of the professional soccer teams.
cdev:
Like wars, these "Olympics" and similar things are basically huge contrived opportunities for massive graft and corruption, where the best connected get to charge whatever obscene bills they want to the taxpayers. They consider it to literally be their entitlement to do so.
Since, after all, they are the insiders.
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