There was a show on the travel channel last year called “An Idiot Abroad.” Ricky Gervais sent a friend of his, Karl Pilkington, to a different country each week to see the seven wonders of the world. One of the episodes was in China. If you can find it, watch it. China is a house of cards built ten times higher than anything anywhere else in the world.
They have a huge peasant population. Every time a farmer gets a tractor, fifty peasants are instantly unemployed and head towards the cities looking for work. They need to find jobs for millions of them every year and now they can’t. The government is trying to prevent peasants from entering the cities looking for work. It is, in the long run, untenable.
“They need to find jobs for millions of them every year and now they can’t. The government is trying to prevent peasants from entering the cities looking for work. It is, in the long run, untenable.”
Not if you are willing to kill millions of people.