r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ActualInstance2195 • 4d ago

Video Fascinating growth made by China!

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u/Euphoric-Potato-4104 4d ago edited 4d ago

I was in shenzen in 1995, and it looked even worse than that 1980 picture of it. Dirt roads, dusty, dilapidated infrastructure, shoeless children wandering the streets, open sewer pits, etc. Now it makes nyc look like a third word country.

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u/FullmetalGin 4d ago

This is the state of most major cities in India right now and it's depressing

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u/UrbanCyclerPT 4d ago

India will never be like China. Chinese are less religious. Religion is an evolution deterrent

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u/KarelKat 4d ago

*China is less religious today because of the cultural revolution.

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u/Mysterious_Fun4403 4d ago

It’s not just religion. Corruption, caste based politics.

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u/nicannkay 4d ago

Oh the corruption is still in China make no mistake. They aren’t showing the poor who work like as slaves in factories.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 4d ago

It’s funny people will make a huge deal about workers in America not making a living wage but these same people buy tons of shit from countries that are basically built on slave labor.

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u/Fun_University_8380 4d ago

It's more like most people don't uncritically buy the state department propaganda that these countries are using slave labor

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u/Sure_Station9370 3d ago

Wait you don’t think China has sweatshops? What reality do you live in lmao.

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u/wacdonalds 3d ago

The sweatshops are Amazon warehouses

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u/exbiiuser02 3d ago

They live in ImagiNation

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u/TicketFew9183 3d ago

Most countries have sweatshops so it’s nothing crazy.

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u/IssaJuhn 3d ago

……. America was literally built on slave/low cost labor…. This is the pot calling the kettle black.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 3d ago

That was 160 years ago.

I’m talking about today.

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u/IssaJuhn 3d ago

Doesn’t matter if the pot is 160 years old and the kettle is brand new. Both are fucking black.