[ruthie_cohen]

This is an incredibly naive take on an issue that is wide spread in China to the point of it being almost the norm.

Confucianism does not lend itself well to crucial infrastructure , you know, things you don’t want to collapse.

https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-minds...

It’s an entire mindset.

[l3mure]

Fascinating. Within the past 2 years, the US suffered 98 people killed in a condo collapse, and a fairly serious (though thankfully non-fatal) bridge collapse. There's also the especially egregious case a bit further back of the New Orleans levies failing during Katrina. Must have been undercover Confucians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1076343656/pittsburgh-bridge-...

[ruthie_cohen]

If you really want to go down that road:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61290444

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57830767

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096810346/survivor-found-alm...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66286576

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You simply cannot compare the two.

I could provide examples all day of how Chinese culture and the CCP allows this type of phenomenon to continue unabated.

It isn’t to say that there are serious infrastructure concerns in America that continue to go unaddressed.

But the scale of graft and shoddy construction in China beggars belief. It extends into every aspect of enterprise, taking shortcuts is the absolute cultural norm.

[green-eclipse]

The reason it was such enormous news was due to how very rare this situation is in the US. Apartment buildings don't collapse on a weekly basis.